Cox v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case, as found by the court: T. The claimant, Samuel C. Cox, in July, 1898, was an assistant surgeon and a mounted officer in the First Iiegiment District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, and was the owner of a roan mare, 1 years old, about 15 hands highland worth $150, which he brought into the military service of the United States in a sound and healthy condition. II.
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The Reporters'1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case, as found by the court: T. The claimant, Samuel C. Cox, in July, 1898, was an assistant surgeon and a mounted officer in the First Iiegiment District of Columbia Volunteer Infantry, and was the owner of a roan mare, 1 years old, about 15 hands highland worth $150, which he brought into the military service of the United States in a sound and healthy condition. II. On the night of July 11, 1898, while on duty with his regiment in the trenches before Santiago, Cuba, claimant’s said horse, becoming frightened at a…
1Opinion of the CourtBaeNey, J.
This proceeding is founded on a claim for the loss of a horse during the Spanish war belonging to the claimant, who was a first lieutenant and assistant surgeon of the First District of Columbia Infantry.
It appears, and the findings herein show, that on the night of July 11, 1898, while the claimant, with his regiment, was stationed in the trenches before Santiago de Cuba, his horse became frightened at a storm then raging and escaped from the picket line and ran'into the field lying between our trenches and those of the enemy. While there it was mistaken by our troops as belonging to the…
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- Hardie v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1904
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- Griffis v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1917