Shaw v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. Tbe court below found tbe facts as follows: — That on tbe seventeenth day of September, 1863, tbe steamboat “ Robert Campbell, Jr.,” of wbicb the claimant was and continued to be tbe sole owner, when lying at the wharf in the port of St. Louis, Mo., fully manned, equipped, and furnished for business on the Mississippi River, was impressed into the military service of the United States by Captain Charles Parsons, assistant-quartermaster of the…
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. Tbe court below found tbe facts as follows: — That on tbe seventeenth day of September, 1863, tbe steamboat “ Robert Campbell, Jr.,” of wbicb the claimant was and continued to be tbe sole owner, when lying at the wharf in the port of St. Louis, Mo., fully manned, equipped, and furnished for business on the Mississippi River, was impressed into the military service of the United States by Captain Charles Parsons, assistant-quartermaster of the United States army, for especial duty between Memphis and Vicksburg, loaded with army stores and troops, and ordered by…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
If we could import into the findings of the court the facts stated in its opinion and in the brief of appellant’s counsel, this case would be presented for our consideration with much greater completeness than at present. It would then clearly appear, that what is termed an impressment of the vessel of the claimant into the military service of the United States was only a notice to its captain from the assistant-quartermaster at St. Louis that the government would require its service for a trip to Memphis, Vicksburg, and other points, accompanied with a statement of the per diem compensation…
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