Wright v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbis case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe claimant was tbe proprieter and publisher of tbe Lynch-burg’ Press, a newspaper printed and published at Lynchburg, in tbe State of Yirginia, from tbe year 1869 to tbe timé of bringing tbis action. II.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tbis case as found by tbe court: I. Tbe claimant was tbe proprieter and publisher of tbe Lynch-burg’ Press, a newspaper printed and published at Lynchburg, in tbe State of Yirginia, from tbe year 1869 to tbe timé of bringing tbis action. II. On tbe 14th of December, 1874, tbe Clerk of tbe House of Representatives sent tbe following letter to tbe claimant: “Clerk’s Oeeice, “ House or Representatives, U. S., “ Washington, D. G., Dee. léth, 1874. “ Sir : Tbe seventh section of tbe act entitled ‘An. act making…
1Opinion of the Court
1 RicuiaedsoN, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case is founded upon transactions which took place after the passage of the Revised Statutes, and must be determined by the law as there found, except so far as it may have been altered by subsequent legislation applicable to the matters now in controversy.
Counsel have cited the earlier acts of Congress, and rested their arguments mostly thereon, as though they were still in force. It was claimed on the part of the defendants that the Revised Statutes, constituting a revision of the previous legislation, are only prima facie evidence…
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