Emory v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the ease: These cases the claimants brought by the voluntary filing of their respective petitions.
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The Reporters’ statement of the ease: These cases the claimants brought by the voluntary filing of their respective petitions. The'followingarethe materialfacts of each case as found by the court: The claimant,, General William H. Emory, was “ engaged in the military service of the United States in the war with Mexico” as a lieutenant-colonel in the First District of Columbia and Maryland Yolunteers; having been appointed for service during the Mexican war on the 1st day of October, 1817, by the President, he accepted his commission of lieutenant-colonel aforesaid, and took the oath of office…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
These cases bring before the court the right of the Army and Navy, including officers, soldiers, and seamen, to the “ three months’ extra pay” given by the Act 19th July, 1848 (9 Stat. L., p, 248, § 5). Considered by themselves the cases are trivial in amount and unimportant in effect. Considered as representative of the rights of thousands who participated in the war with Mexico, and of their surviving relatives, the cases may be deemed of very great magnitude.
What the total number of persons engaged in the war was it is impossible to state with absolute precision; but the Secretary of War,…
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