Taylor v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the defendants1 Motion. The Reporters1 statement of the case: The bill in Congress for the relief of the claimant, his petition to Congress, and his petition in .this court, together with the defendants’ motion to dismiss, will be found in the opinion of the court. ;The question of jurisdiction presented in this case is a new one in this court. A demurrer should lie, if the facts stated are true and the legal positions of claimant sustained.
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On the defendants1 Motion. The Reporters1 statement of the case: The bill in Congress for the relief of the claimant, his petition to Congress, and his petition in .this court, together with the defendants’ motion to dismiss, will be found in the opinion of the court. ;The question of jurisdiction presented in this case is a new one in this court. A demurrer should lie, if the facts stated are true and the legal positions of claimant sustained. As the-case stands, this court is without legal power or authority, under the provisions of the Bowman Act, to grant the relief asked for. It can not,…
1Opinion of the Court
. Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This ease was transmitted to the court by the following order of the Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives :
*78“U. S. House or Representatives,
“ Committee on Claims, February 23, 1887.
“At a meeting of the Committee on Claims of the House of Representatives of the United States, held on the 22d day of February, A. D. 1887, the following order was made by the com mittee:
‘■•Ordered, That bill H. E. 11.131, for the relief of James Taylor, which was referred to this committee by order of the House of Representatives, and is now…
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