Joseph C. Irwin & Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts in Irwin’s case as found by the court. The act by which the claims were referred to this court is set forth in the opinion : I. The firm of J. O. Irwin & Co., at the time of the occurrences hereinafter set forth, was composed of Joseph O. Irwin, James T. Thornton, and Ulysses Turner. Ulysses Turner died May 20, 1879. The said firm was for many years engaged in freighting across the plains. II.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts in Irwin’s case as found by the court. The act by which the claims were referred to this court is set forth in the opinion : I. The firm of J. O. Irwin & Co., at the time of the occurrences hereinafter set forth, was composed of Joseph O. Irwin, James T. Thornton, and Ulysses Turner. Ulysses Turner died May 20, 1879. The said firm was for many years engaged in freighting across the plains. II. In June, 1857, this firm made a contract with Livingston, Kincaid & Oo.. merchants in Salt Lake City, to transport from Atchison,…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of the court:
This is a claim for loss sustained by a freighter across the plains, through the alleged impressment of his trains by order of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, during the Utah expedition of 1857.
The case comes to us by virtue of the provisions of the following act of Congress, approved July S, 1S8C:
“ That the claims of Joseph C. Irwin & Co., and C. A. Perry & Co., freighters, for property claimed toha.ve been taken and impressed into the service of the United States in the year 1857, by orders of Col. Albert Sidney Johnston, in commaud of the Utah…
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