Cox v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The stipulation upon which this ease was submitted is set forth in the opinion of the court. The extent of the application of the phrase in amity in the Indian depredation law o'f March 3,1891, has been a source of difficulty to the court and of contention between counsel for claimants and counsel for the Government.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The stipulation upon which this ease was submitted is set forth in the opinion of the court. The extent of the application of the phrase in amity in the Indian depredation law o'f March 3,1891, has been a source of difficulty to the court and of contention between counsel for claimants and counsel for the Government. In this discussion I shall refer to the first paragraph, giving jurisdiction to this court, as the amity paragraph, and the second paragraph as the treaty paragraph. The generic division of claims coming tinder this law is, first those claims…
1Opinion of the Court
Bichaedson, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The jparties filed the following stipulation May 29,1893:
“It is hereby stipulated and agreed on the part of the claimant in the above-entitled cause, by John Wharton Clark, attorney of record, and on the part of the Government by L. W. Colby, Assistant Attorney-General, in charge of Indian depredation cases, that the following facts are shown by the *363original papers, evidence, records, and reports from tbe Government Departments on file in the office of the clerk of said court:
“1. That William Cox, the original claimant, was at the time of…
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