Thomas v. United States

Dkake, Oh. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court :■

In this case the material part of the claimant’s petition is as follows:

“The claimant, Daniel F. Thomas, respectfully shows to your. Honorable Court, that heretofore, to wit, on the fifteenth day of August, 1862, he enlisted at a corporal of Company “L,” 1st Arkansas Cavalry, in the volunteer service of the United States,, and had in such service a bay horse of his own of the value of one hundred dollars; that afterward, to wit, on the fifteenth day of September, 1863, as Cassville, Missouri, a rope had been put up in camp for the purpose of…