Nathan Clifford

“ Claims against the United States which are disputed by the officers authorized to adjust such accounts may be compromised, and if the claimant voluntarily enters into such a compromise and accepts a smaller sum than the claim and executes a discharge in full for the whole claim he is bound by the adjustment and cannot sue for what he voluntarily relinquished. ”

“ Enough appears to satisfy the court that the charter-party was superseded, and that the claim was in fact for a quantum meruit, and as such that it was the proper subject of compromise within the principle adopted and applied in the case of Mason v. ”