Haym v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: This case was under consideration on the preliminary question of the claimant’s loyalty, and the decision relates to the evidence upon which lie relied, viz, the finding or judgment of the court in his favor on the question of loyalty in a former suit under the Abandoned or Captured Property Act.
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This case was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Eepresentatives. Its subject-matter is quartermaster stores furnished to the Army at Savannah during the war of the rebellion. Concerning such claims the statute conferring jurisdiction expressly provides that “the fact of loyalty shall be a jurisdictional fact,” and that unless the court shall “on a preliminary inquiry find that the person who furnished such supplies or stores, or from whom the same were taken as aforesaid, was loyal to the Government of theUnited States throughout said war, the court shall…
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