Horace Harmon Lurton

“ The Postmaster General construed the contract as requiring appellant to receive from and deliver to all railroads using the Union Station at Omaha. This construction required him to receive from and deliver to three railroad companies not specified in the contract; namely, the Wabash, the Chicago & Northwestern, and the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul. The case must therefore turn upon the question as to whether the service contemplated by his contract included mails to and from the railways mentioned. ”

“ Paul Railroad, and the Wabash Railroad entered the Union Station at Omaha, and to further inform himself as to the amount and character of the service to be performed he consulted the postmaster and superintendent of mails at Omaha, who called his attention to the Instructions to Bidders ”

“ Coming, then, to the service required by the contract. The proposal for the Omaha mail-wagon service and its acceptance were according to a printed official form. This proposal and acceptance, making the contract proper, refer to and make the public advertisement of the Postmaster General for proposals a part of the agreement, and from it the service contemplated is discovered. That advertisement included certain 'instructions to bidders,' of which they were required to take notice. ”