Shuey v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe Court of Claims. Henry B. Ste. Marie filed his petition in the Court of Claims to recover the sum of $15,000, being the balance alleged to be due him of the reward of $25,000 offered by the Secretary of War, on the 20th of April, 1865, for the apprehension of John H. Surratt, one of Booth’s alleged accomplices in the murder of President Lincoln.
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Appeal from tbe Court of Claims. Henry B. Ste. Marie filed his petition in the Court of Claims to recover the sum of $15,000, being the balance alleged to be due him of the reward of $25,000 offered by the Secretary of War, on the 20th of April, 1865, for the apprehension of John H. Surratt, one of Booth’s alleged accomplices in the murder of President Lincoln. The court below found the facts as follows: — 1. On the 20th April, 1865, the Secretary of War issued, and caused to be published in the public newspapers and otherwise, a proclamation, whereby he announced that there would be paid by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
We agree with the Court of Claims, that the service rendered by the plaintiff’s testator was, not the apprehension of John H. Surratt, for which the War Department had offered a reward of $25,000, but giving information that conduced to the arrest. These are quite distinct things, though one may have been a consequence of the other. The proclamation of the Secretary of War treated them as different; and, while a reward of $25,000 Avas offered for the apprehension, the offer for information was only a “liberal reward.” The findings of the Court of Claims also exhibit a clear distinction…
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