Russell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Tlie claimant moved on bis own affidavit, which among other ■things stated: This affiant farther states that on the 21st and 22d of November, 1871, and after the affirmance of said judgment by the Supreme Court, the motion for a new trial hereinbefore referred to, and a motion on the part of the defendant, to stay the payment of the judgment, were argued and submitted in the said Court of Claims; the said motions having been argued in said court before four of the judges…
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Tlie claimant moved on bis own affidavit, which among other ■things stated: This affiant farther states that on the 21st and 22d of November, 1871, and after the affirmance of said judgment by the Supreme Court, the motion for a new trial hereinbefore referred to, and a motion on the part of the defendant, to stay the payment of the judgment, were argued and submitted in the said Court of Claims; the said motions having been argued in said court before four of the judges thereof; and that on the 11th of December, 1871, the Assistant Attorney-General, on behalf of the defendant in said cause,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
It appears from the affidavit and exhibits on which this motion is based, that in October,. 1S67, Bussell filed a petition in the Court of Claims to recover from the United States compensation for the use of certain steamboats, and that he obtained a judgment for $41,355.33 on the Gtli of December, 1869; that afterward an appeal was taken to this court on behalf of the United States, and the judgment of the Court of Claims was affirmed on the 20th of November, 1871; that pending the appeal, the counsel for the United States applied to the Court of' Claims for a new trial, but the motion was…
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