United States v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion to amend a decree of this court affirming a decree of the Court of Claims, stay, mandate, &c. The case was thus: Adams filed, some time since, a petition in the Court of Claims against the United States, claiming $112,748 for certain mortar-boats, tug-boats, cabins, pilot-houses, and other work, furnished by order of General Fremont in the Western Military District, during the summer of 1861. One of the defences relied on by the United States against it was, that…
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On motion to amend a decree of this court affirming a decree of the Court of Claims, stay, mandate, &c. The case was thus: Adams filed, some time since, a petition in the Court of Claims against the United States, claiming $112,748 for certain mortar-boats, tug-boats, cabins, pilot-houses, and other work, furnished by order of General Fremont in the Western Military District, during the summer of 1861. One of the defences relied on by the United States against it was, that the government had appointed a board of commissioners to hear and determine this claim among others; that in December,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The court is of opinion that a case has not been presented by the appellee, which would justify it in the exercise of its equitable powers to grant this relief.
The second rule of this court on appeals from the Court of Claims, in respect to making up the record, is as follows; “A finding of the facts in the case by the said Court of Claims, and the conclusions of law on the facts on which the court founds its judgment or decree. The finding of the facts and the conclusions of law to be stated separately, and certified to this court as part of the record.”
The remedy, in case the Court of…
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- United States v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1870