Boschke v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'* statement of tbe case: The following bill was referred to the court March 2, 1907, by resolution of the United States Senate, under act of Congress approved March 3, 1887, known as the Tucker Act: A BILL For the relief of A. Boschke, civil engineer.
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The Reporters'* statement of tbe case: The following bill was referred to the court March 2, 1907, by resolution of the United States Senate, under act of Congress approved March 3, 1887, known as the Tucker Act: A BILL For the relief of A. Boschke, civil engineer. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, to A. Boschke, civil engineer, of the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
The questions presented arise on the motion of the claimant to amend the findings to be transmitted to Congress under the fourteenth section of the act of March 3, 1887, known as the “Tucker Act ” (24 Stat., 505, c. 359). After full argument and a more exhaustive analysis of the whole record, results appear in the substituted findings from which it will be seen that there is too much improbability growing out of inconsistencies and contradictions in the testimony for the court to say that the case is proven.
It is argued with much earnestness that the author of any intellectual production has…
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- Stone v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1894