Stern v. United States

This is a claim for stores and supplies alleged to have been taken from the claimant in April, 1865, by the military forces of the United States, for the use of the army, at Union Springs, in the State of Alabama.

The claim was filed before the Commissioners of Claims for the sum of $1,700. The Commission did not pass upon the merits of the claim, but rejected it on loyalty. On May 1,1888, it was referred to this court by the House of Eepresentatives under the Bowman Act, and is now before us on the preliminary question of loyalty.

In the proceeding before the Commission three witnesses were…