Nance v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The grounds of the motion appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
This case was referred to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives, and upon that reference the claimant filed a petition, alleging that “ during the late war of the rebellion, atdifferent times, there was taken from the decedent quartermaster stores and commissary supplies amounting to the sum of $840 by the forces of the United States and appropriated to the use of the Army.”
The reference of this claim by the committee was under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1883, known as the Bowman Act, and upon the provisions of that statute we must adjudge the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- O'Keefe v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1869
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