Pilkington v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case : The following are the facts of this case as found, by the court: That the amount heretofore allowed the claimant under a prior reference to the court of said claim, to wit, the sum of $2,860, which was allowed June 4, 1889, was thereafter, on March 3,1891, appropriated for by Congress (26 St'at.-L., 1441, 1453), which sum was thereafter taken and accepted by him and receipted for “ as a full and final discharge ” of said claims so…
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The Reporters' statement of the case : The following are the facts of this case as found, by the court: That the amount heretofore allowed the claimant under a prior reference to the court of said claim, to wit, the sum of $2,860, which was allowed June 4, 1889, was thereafter, on March 3,1891, appropriated for by Congress (26 St'at.-L., 1441, 1453), which sum was thereafter taken and accepted by him and receipted for “ as a full and final discharge ” of said claims so examined, investigated, and reported favorably by the Court of Claims.,
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The question presented in this case is (1) whether a committee of Congress, under the act of March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. *358L., 485), known as the Bowman Act, can transmit to the court a second time a claim or matter after the same has once been judicially investigated, the facts found and reported to Congress, and the amount allowed by the court appropriated for “as a full and final discharge” and paid; and (2) if that can be done, whether, under such - circumstances, the claim is discharged and forever barred under that appropriation and under Revised Statutes, sections 1092 and. 1093.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Burwell v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1887
- Dowdy v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1888
- Michot v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1896
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