Ball v. Halsell
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT. COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was an action brought August 18, 1893, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Northern District of Texas, by Thomas Ball, a citizen of the State of Virginia, against.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT. COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. This was an action brought August 18, 1893, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the Northern District of Texas, by Thomas Ball, a citizen of the State of Virginia, against. Julia F. Halsell, a citizen of the State of Texas, résiding in that district, and the widow, legatee and executrix of J. G. Halsell, upon a written contract made with the plaintiff by said Halsell in his lifetime, in these words: “¥e, the undersigned parties of the first part, do hereby constitute and appoint Thomas Ball our…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
In determining the construction and effect of the contract sued on, it is important to keep in mind the acts of Congress and the decisions of this court bearing upon the subject.
In Kendall v. United States, 7 Wall. 113, certain attorneys in 1843 (before Congress had passed any act regulating assignments of- claims against the United States) made an agreement with- the representatives of the Western Cherokees, a branch of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, to prosecute a claim of the Western Cherokees against the United States, and to receive directly from the United States five per cent of all…
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