Heflebower v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was heard and submitted upon the evidence, but subsequently was remanded, with others, for argument upon the question of jurisdiction. That question was argued at length by a number of counsel representing this and other cases.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This case was heard and submitted upon the evidence, but subsequently was remanded, with others, for argument upon the question of jurisdiction. That question was argued at length by a number of counsel representing this and other cases. The objections to the jurisdiction were finally disposed of and the following findings filed : I. John Heflebower was the owner in 1861 and during the war of a farm of 190 acres, of which 120 acres were under cultivation, in Washington County, Maryland, adjoining Maryland Heights, and lived there from the time of its…
1Opinion of the CourtUott, J.
The legislative policy of the Government is the key to the interpretation of the Bowman Act. When that measure was first brought before Congress the bill contained only the first two sections of the act, and allowed either House or any committee to send to this court any claim which required the taking of evidence or involved the determination of facts. But Congress, being unwilling to grant such unlimited discretion, ingrafted upon the bill the restrictive amendments that now form the third and fourth sections.
The third section of the act is wholly in restraint of jurisdic-*231tiou, and the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ford v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1884
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- Stovall v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1891
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