Glenn v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The plaintiff in this case is a paymaster of the United States army. While in the execution of an order of his immediate superior, Senior Paymaster Francis, dated Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, August 13,1866, directing him to proceed to the military district of Fort Boise and pay the United States troops in that district, he was robbed of his money-box at Fort Boise, in Idaho Territory.
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The plaintiff in this case is a paymaster of the United States army. While in the execution of an order of his immediate superior, Senior Paymaster Francis, dated Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory, August 13,1866, directing him to proceed to the military district of Fort Boise and pay the United States troops in that district, he was robbed of his money-box at Fort Boise, in Idaho Territory. The box contained at the time of its theft the sum of sixty-three thousand and twenty-seven dollars and twelve cents, ($63,027 12.) It was stolen by the soldiers of the garrison. Through the almost…
1Opinion of the CourtPeck, J.
At the December term, A. D. 1867, of this court George E. Glenn filed his petition herein, by which he represented that he is now, and has been for three and more years last past, a paymaster in the United States Army, actively engaged in the payment of United States troops, and performing the usual duties of said office; that while in the performance of his official duties, your petitioner was on the 13th day of August, A. D. 1866, ordered to proceed from Fort Yancouver, Washington Territory, where he then was on duty, to the military district of Fort Boise, in the Territory of Idaho, and…
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