Widmayer v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the history of the case. The legal bearing of the facts are stated in the opinion: The following bill was referred to the court on the 27th day of April, 1904, by resolution of the United States Senate under an act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, known as the Bowman Act. [S. 2303, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.] “A bill for the relief of Anna It. Widmayer and Edgar H. Bates.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the history of the case. The legal bearing of the facts are stated in the opinion: The following bill was referred to the court on the 27th day of April, 1904, by resolution of the United States Senate under an act of Congress approved March 3, 1883, known as the Bowman Act. [S. 2303, Fifty-eighth Congress, second session.] “A bill for the relief of Anna It. Widmayer and Edgar H. Bates. “ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United, States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of ten thousand dollars…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
The jurisdiction of the court exists under an act approved March 3, 1883, commonly known as the Bowman Act .(22 *523Stats., 485). Its object is well expressed by its title, “An act to afford assistance and relief to Congress and the executive departments in the investigation of claims and demands against the Government; ” and the first section is designed to relieve Congress and the committees of that body from the inconvenience and labor' incident to the investigation of claims and demands founded upon supposed legal rights against .the Government. The further object of the act is to secure to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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