Stanton v. United States

MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.

The claimant has filed a motion to reinstate a case dismissed by the court in November, 1915. Six years have therefore elapsed since the dismissal. The fact is significant, but scarcely more so than the delay that characterized any prosecution of the case or its preparation for trial. A brief history of the proceeding in tbis court is that it arose out of a reference by a committee of the Senate to this court of a bill proposing the payment of claims of the claimant, as administrator, and those of another claimant named *121Joslyn. This bill, S. 3616, was introduced in the…