Johnson v. United States
United States Court of Claims
John Rush, of Philadelphia, was one of the sailing-masters in the navy, appointed in 1805, but being so unfortunate as to kill a man in a so-called affair of honor, at New Orleans, he soon became insane. Just at this time there was no naval government asylum in which such cases could be medically treated, and he was placed by his father in the Pennsylvanian hospital, where he remained from 1810 to the 9th of August, 183?, the day of his death.
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John Rush, of Philadelphia, was one of the sailing-masters in the navy, appointed in 1805, but being so unfortunate as to kill a man in a so-called affair of honor, at New Orleans, he soon became insane. Just at this time there was no naval government asylum in which such cases could be medically treated, and he was placed by his father in the Pennsylvanian hospital, where he remained from 1810 to the 9th of August, 183?, the day of his death. These facts belong to the history of the times, and they are substantiated in .the respective opinions of Attorneys General Crittenden and Cushing, to…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
John Gr. Johnson, administrator de honis non of John Rush, deceased, late a sailing-master in the United States navy, represents by his petition that the decedent was commissioned a sailingvmaster in the navy in 1806; that he remained in aetive service until 1810, when he became insane ; and that in September of that year he was placed in a hospital, where he continued until his decease, which occurred on the 9th of August, 1837. That the decedent received half pay as sailing-master up to the 31st of July, 1813. On the 12th of March, 1849, a claim for arrearages of pay was presented to the…
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