Gagnon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a petition filed in the Court of Claims in 1894 and amended in 1902, to recover the value of one-half of certain property taken in 1866 from the firm of which the petitioner was a member by Indians then in.amity with the United States. The facts found in the--case were substantially as follows: Charles Gagnon was a British subject..
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a petition filed in the Court of Claims in 1894 and amended in 1902, to recover the value of one-half of certain property taken in 1866 from the firm of which the petitioner was a member by Indians then in.amity with the United States. The facts found in the--case were substantially as follows: Charles Gagnon was a British subject.. In March, 1858, he declared bex e'the District Court of Woodbury County^ Iowa, his intention to become a citizen of the United States. He-alleged that in 1863 he was admitted by the District Court of Richardson County, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Broavn
This case raises the simple question whether thirty-three years after a judgment naturalizing an alien is alleged to haAre been rendered but not recorded, or if recorded, the record lost, a common law' court has jurisdiction to enter such judgment of naturalization nunc pro tunc, when no entry or memorandum appeared upon the record or files at the time the original judgment is supposed to have been rendered. If there be no jurisdiction to enter such judgment, it may be attacked collaterally.
The' power to amend its records, to correct mistakes of the clerk or other officer of. the court,…
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