Stilling v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Claimant, Henry H. Stilling, is a citizen of the United States, has always borne true allegiance thereto, is the sole owner of the claim embraced in this suit, and has made no assignment or transfer of. said claim or of any part thereof or interest therein. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. Claimant, Henry H. Stilling, is a citizen of the United States, has always borne true allegiance thereto, is the sole owner of the claim embraced in this suit, and has made no assignment or transfer of. said claim or of any part thereof or interest therein. II. Plaintiff, being eligible under the laws and regulations of the United States Civil Service Commission, was, on June T, 1900, duly and regularly appointed a pilot in the Quartermaster’s Department, by authority of the Acting…
1Opinion of the CourtIIowky, J.
By an act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, approved March 2, 1897 (29 Stat. L., 609), an appropriation was made for a gross sum for the transportation of the Army and its supplies. Among the items included in the appropriation was an amount for “ the expenses of sailing public transports on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.” Subsequent annual appropriation acts for the support of the Army contained similar *64provisions, and it was under the authority of these acts that plaintiff was appointed a…
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