Pacific Railroad v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found bv the court, so far-as they are involved in the decision of the case: I. In October, .1864, thirteen bridges upon the main line and southwestern branch of the claimant’s railroads had been burnt or destroyed during the then recent invasion of the State by the Confederate forces under General Sterling Price.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found bv the court, so far-as they are involved in the decision of the case: I. In October, .1864, thirteen bridges upon the main line and southwestern branch of the claimant’s railroads had been burnt or destroyed during the then recent invasion of the State by the Confederate forces under General Sterling Price. Early in that month Major-General Eosecrans, commanding the Department of Missouri, summoned to an informal conference in Saiut Louis several gentlemen whom he regarded as the proper representatives of the…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This case, which has been twice argued, has twice presented some of the most perplexing questions of constitutional and international law, and of the conflicting rights of the government as a sovereign and as a contracting party, that have been before the court for many years. A closer analysis of the facts, however, has separated the relevant from the irrelevant, and so simplified the ultimate questions to be determined that the court is now able to reach its conclusions with a sense of tolerable certainty, if not of absolute freedom from doubt.
The controversy arises entirely from the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Morgan v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1878