Ross v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The moneys in the Treasury of the United States derived from the sales of captured cotton in Northern Georgia, which came to the custody of the agents of the Treasury through the city of Nashville, have been separated by this court into distinct funds, representing, so far as possible, distinct captures.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. The moneys in the Treasury of the United States derived from the sales of captured cotton in Northern Georgia, which came to the custody of the agents of the Treasury through the city of Nashville, have been separated by this court into distinct funds, representing, so far as possible, distinct captures. The opinion of this court in the case of JEdivin M. Price v. The United States (7 0. Ols. R., 567) is annexed to these findings as a statement or account of such funds, except so far as it is…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The means provided for reviewing the decisions of this court consist entirely of “ a finding of the facts established by the *569evidence in the nature of a special verdict, but not the evidence establishing them.” (Supreme Court, Rule 1, regulating appeals from the Court of Claims.) From the first appeals that went up to the Supreme Court (Adams’s and other motions, 7 C. Cls. R., 11; Clark’s Case, ib., 32) down to the last term, (Paymaster Clark’s Case, ante, p. 60,) the questions which can or cannot be reviewed by special verdict, and the matters which should' or should not be set forth in the…
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