Stevens v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The folloAving are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein, after having served sixteen years in the War Department, ivas, on September 9, 1898, appointed a major and additional paymaster of volunteers, and served in that capacity until May 7, 1901, when he ivas appointed paymaster in the United States Army with the rank of captain, and since that date has served in that capacity. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The folloAving are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant herein, after having served sixteen years in the War Department, ivas, on September 9, 1898, appointed a major and additional paymaster of volunteers, and served in that capacity until May 7, 1901, when he ivas appointed paymaster in the United States Army with the rank of captain, and since that date has served in that capacity. II. In November, 1901, this claimant was stationed at Atlanta, Ga., and in the performance of his duty as paymaster he was obliged to pay the troops…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant, a paymaster in the United States Army, seeks relief by way of credit in the settlement of his accounts *349for money lost through the theft of a messenger, as he avers, without fault or negligence on his part.
The relief is sought under paragraph 3 of Revised Statutes, section 1059 and section 1062, which provide as follows:
“ Sec. 1059. * * * Third. The claim of any paymaster, quartermaster, commissarjr of subsistence, or other disbursing officer of the United States, or of his administrators or executors, for relief' from…
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