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Hazard versus Thomas C. Durant legal draft report, Providence, R.I., September, 1880
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draft report erroneously confounds the $168874.45 extra work in the December estimate with the first four items of the suspense account aggregating the same amount, although both have heretofore conceded their identity; the complainants in both their argument F and G. and Mr. Durant in his affidavit And after a careful reconsideration I cannot doubt that in thus conceding it they were right, and that the report in this respect is correct; for I think that the evidence establishes that this amount as for extra work (never done) was added to the December estimate for the purpose of including and covering under this contract, and thus bringing into the Credit Mobilier accounts, these payments, represented by these four items of the suspense account; which had been previously made to Durant by the Rail Road Company for outside expenditures at Washington. Not only have Durant, and Crane both so testified (though the latter, it is true, in an answer objected to as irresponsive), but to the same effect also, as I understand it, taken
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draft report erroneously confounds the $168874.45 extra work in the December estimate with the first four items of the suspense account aggregating the same amount, although both have heretofore conceded their identity; the complainants in both their argument F and G. and Mr. Durant in his affidavit And after a careful reconsideration I cannot doubt that in thus conceding it they were right, and that the report in this respect is correct; for I think that the evidence establishes that this amount as for extra work (never done) was added to the December estimate for the purpose of including and covering under this contract, and thus bringing into the Credit Mobilier accounts, these payments, represented by these four items of the suspense account; which had been previously made to Durant by the Rail Road Company for outside expenditures at Washington. Not only have Durant, and Crane both so testified (though the latter, it is true, in an answer objected to as irresponsive), but to the same effect also, as I understand it, taken
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