Child v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Findings of fact in the Gotirt of Claims : 1. During the months of August and September, and before the 14th October, 1861, the city of Saint Louis, being the military center and headquarters of a large military department known as the Department of the West, Major McKinstry, the chief quartermaster of the department, and his assistant quartermasters, under the express orders and with the approval of Major-General Frémont, commanding the department, purchased of the…
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Findings of fact in the Gotirt of Claims : 1. During the months of August and September, and before the 14th October, 1861, the city of Saint Louis, being the military center and headquarters of a large military department known as the Department of the West, Major McKinstry, the chief quartermaster of the department, and his assistant quartermasters, under the express orders and with the approval of Major-General Frémont, commanding the department, purchased of the claimants, then doing business in Saint Louis under the firm name of Child, Pratt & Fox, goods and merchandise, consisting of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
This case, which is brought here by appeal from the Court of Claims, belongs'to a class of demands against the Government originating at Saint Louis in the early days of the late civil war, which, by order of the President, were investigated at that time by a special commission appointed for the purpose. The claim of appellees for the sum of $478,119.02 was examined by that commission. It allowed the sum of $315,008.15 on the demand, and rejected the remainder of $163,111.47.
They accepted the sum so allowed by the commission, gave receipts in full of the accounts included in the demand, and…
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