McDonald v. United States

This case was referred to the Court of Claims by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives, December 22, 1884, under the act of March 3, 1883, known as the Boivman Act (22 Stat. L., 485).

The claimant is a citizen of Benton County, Mississippi, and resided there during the late civil war. His father died intestate in 1858, leaving a widow and two children. Robert, the *320present claimant, was born July 5, 1851, and. his brother William in July, 1857. The widow died intestate in the fall of 1863; William died intestate in March, 1876. There has been no administration upon the…