Sierra v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Vie Reporters’ statement of the case: The court found the following facts: At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion Joseph Sierra was collector of customs for the district of Florida, at the port of Pensacola, and also superintendent of lights, and agent of the marine hospital, at the same place.
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Vie Reporters’ statement of the case: The court found the following facts: At the breaking out of the war of the rebellion Joseph Sierra was collector of customs for the district of Florida, at the port of Pensacola, and also superintendent of lights, and agent of the marine hospital, at the same place. During the period of that war he resided in Floiida, giving aid and comfort to the rebellion, and continued to reside there till the 14th of May, 1807, when he died, and the claimant became his administratrix. At the breaking out of the rebellion there was a balance due him from the…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The cases in which it has been held that the period of the rebellion is to be excluded from the computation of the time fixed by statutes of limitation for the bringing of suits, though arising between individuals, and principally under State laws, were settled upon grounds which seem to apply equally to the case of a claim against the United States in favor of an inhabitant of an insurrectionary State during that period, whether he was in act and fact a rebel, or was loyal to the Government, but constrained by circumstances to abide in the…
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