Hart's Administrator v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was tried at the previous term of the court, and is reportbd in 15 C. Ols. R., 414. Judgment -went against the claimant, but a new trial was subsequently allowed upon newly discovered evidence.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was tried at the previous term of the court, and is reportbd in 15 C. Ols. R., 414. Judgment -went against the claimant, but a new trial was subsequently allowed upon newly discovered evidence. On this the second trial the court found the following as the facts of the case: I. On the 3d March, 1861, Thomas IL Jackson was and for some time had been a first lieutenant of infantry in the Army of the United States, and acting assistant commissary of subsistence and acting quartermaster at Fort Bliss, in Texas. On the 1st day of April, 1861, he…
1Opinion of the CourtDavis, J.
This case was first heard at the December term, 1879 (15 C. Cls. R., 414). The claimant, being dissatisfied with the judgment then rendered, and having discovered new evidence, asked for a rehearing. The exhaustive argument of the junior counsel for the claimant on the facts as now presented, and the comprehensive and able exposition of the law by the senior counsel, leave the court no room for misunderstanding his theory of his case in both branches.
I. A question of jurisdiction arises at the threshold with regard to a large portion of the claim. The cl.iims come here from the Department of…
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