Williams v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Francis Taylor was commissioned captain in the Second State Begiment of the Virginia forces on Continental establishment, May 8,1776; he continued in active service and was promoted and commissioned major in said regiment with rank from July 12, 1778, and be became supernumerary major by tbe arrangement of tbe Continental Army at White Plains in September,…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. Francis Taylor was commissioned captain in the Second State Begiment of the Virginia forces on Continental establishment, May 8,1776; he continued in active service and was promoted and commissioned major in said regiment with rank from July 12, 1778, and be became supernumerary major by tbe arrangement of tbe Continental Army at White Plains in September, 1778. - II. The regiment, commonly designated as the Albemarle 3-uards, was originally authorized by the resolution 19th…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The court has listened to the two arguments of the counsel for the claimant with the respect which their learning, ability, and earnestness demanded, and has approached the consideration of this case with the favorable inclination that a revolu-*521nonary claim always receives in this country; but has regretfully reached the conclusion that the moral probabilities on which it rests do not constitute such a foundation of eirrmmstantial evidence as would sustain a verdict in a suit at nisi -prius or authorize a judgment in this court. A brief analysis of the jase will, we thinli, render this…
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- Commonwealth v. Lilly's adm'r.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1830
- Hildeburn v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1877