Gagnon v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Indians of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes took propertj' from the firm of Hosford & Gagnon, in the Territory of Wyoming, February, 1806, of the aggregate value of $15,500. The depredation was without just cause or provocation on the, part of the owner or agent in charge. II.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Indians of the Sioux and Cheyenne tribes took propertj' from the firm of Hosford & Gagnon, in the Territory of Wyoming, February, 1806, of the aggregate value of $15,500. The depredation was without just cause or provocation on the, part of the owner or agent in charge. II. One-half of the property so taken W'as owned by James W. Hosford, for which lie had maintained suit under No. 3912 in this court and recovered judgment in the sum of $7,750, vdiich judgment has been…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The question presented is, Was the claimant a citizen of' the United States at the date of the depredation complained of in February, 1866 ?
The claimant grounds his right to citizenship on the facts set forth in finding iv, which in brief are that he was born in Canada; declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States before the District Court of Woodbury County, Iowa, in March, 1858, and claims that thereafter on September 25,1863, he was admitted by the District Court of Richardson County, in the Territory of Nebraska, to become a citizen of the United States, but no record…
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