Great Western Insurance v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS EROM THE COURT OE CLAIMS. These were suits against the United States to recoven portions of the Geneva award. The insurance company sued on its own account; the plaintiff Paulson, as receiver of the Columbian Insurance Company. Motions to dismiss for want of jurisdiction were made in both cases, and were- heard together. The facts making the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This is an appeal. from a judgment of the Court of Claims, dismissing a petition for want of jurisdiction. This was not done on a demurrer or plea, but on the following motion :
“ The Assistant Attorney-General, on behalf of the United States, moves the court to dismiss the petition in this cause, for the reason that it does not disclose a cause of action within the jurisdiction of the court.”
The motion, on hearing, was sustained (see 19 C. Cl. 206), and it is this judgment of dismissal we are asked to review.
The petition sets forth that the. claimant was an insurance company, engaged in the…
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