Terrill v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The claim was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 23d day of February, 18S9. The petition alleges that during the war of the rebellion the claimant resided at Lexington, Henderson County, State of Tennessee; that he enlisted and was duly mustered as a soldier on the 8th of August, 1862, in Company A of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, U. S. Volunteers, and was honorably discharged…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The claim was transmitted to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 23d day of February, 18S9. The petition alleges that during the war of the rebellion the claimant resided at Lexington, Henderson County, State of Tennessee; that he enlisted and was duly mustered as a soldier on the 8th of August, 1862, in Company A of the Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, U. S. Volunteers, and was honorably discharged from said service on the 9th of August, 1865. That he furnished for his own use while in said service one bay horse and…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives transmitted this claim to the court under the provisions of the Bowman Act of March 3, 1883, ch. 116 (1 Supp. Rev. Stat., 2d ed., p. 403).
The defendants contend that the court is without jurisdiction of the claim for the horses on the ground that it is barred by law and therefore excluded from its jurisdiction by the last clause of section 3 of said act.
The court has already held that a claim is not barred, within the meaning of that section, if at the time of the passage of *467tbe…
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- Griffis v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1916