Colgate v. United States

Booth, Ghief Justice,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This case is governed by a special jurisdictional act approved March 3,1927, which reads as follows:

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the findings of fact made by the Court of Claims in the case of Arthur E. Colgate, administrator of the estate of Clinton G. Colgate, deceased, against the United States, congressional, numbered 6063, Senate Document Numbered 703, *673Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, be, and they are hereby, referred back to the Court of…