Seminole Nation v. United States

This case was formerly before this court on plaintiff’s original and amended petitions. Judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for $1,317,087.27 (82 Ct. Cls. 135). We were reversed in part by the Supreme Court (299 U. S. 417) principally on the ground that the judgment embraced items set up for the first time in an amended petition which was filed after the expiration of the statutory period within which suit could be brought. Upon remand of the case here, judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff for $10,099.25.

Following this, on August 16, 1937, Congress passed the act set out…