Clark v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. During the times hereinafter mentioned claimant was •a first lieutenant in the Philippine Scouts, United States Army. II.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. During the times hereinafter mentioned claimant was •a first lieutenant in the Philippine Scouts, United States Army. II. While on duty at Ambulong, Province of Batangas, Philippine Islands, claimant was ordered to proceed from Ambulong to Santo Tomas, Province of Batangas, Philippine Islands, with the troops under his command, the Twenty-fifth Company, Philippine Scouts, to take station with his company at the latter place and to relieve First Lieut. John J. Eyan, Twelfth Cavalry, as…
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, J.
This is' a claim for relief under sections 1059 and 1062, Revised Statutes.
Section 1059, Revised Statutes, pages 195, 196, reads as follows:
“ The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters * * * :
“ Third. The claim of any paymaster, quartermaster, commissary of subsistence, or other disbursing officer of the United States, or of his administrators or executors, for relief from responsibility on account of capture or otherwise while in the line of his duty, of Government funds, vouchers, records, or papérs in his charge, and for which such officer was…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Boggs v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1909
- Glenn v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1868