Garrison v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the preamble of the Greek treaty, 1866 (14 Stat. L., p. 785). The plea in bar filed by the defendants is stated, in effect, in the opinion of the court.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the preamble of the Greek treaty, 1866 (14 Stat. L., p. 785). The plea in bar filed by the defendants is stated, in effect, in the opinion of the court. “ Whereas existing treaties between the United States and the Greek Nation have become insufficient to meet tbeir mutual necessities; and whereas the Greeks made a treaty with”* the so-called Gonfederate States, on the tenth of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, whereby they ignored their allegiance to the United States, and unsettled the treaty relations existing between the…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The petition herein was filed under the Indian Depredation Act, March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 851; 1 Supp. Rev. Stat., 2d ed., p. 913), to recover the sum of $1,000 for property therein described, alleged to have been taken by the defendant Indians, then in amity with the United States, from one George -A. *280Garrison, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paulding County in the State of Georgia, since deceased, on or about tbe 1st day of June, 1836, without just cause or provocation on the part of the owner or his agent in charge, and not returned or paid for.
The defendants filed a plea in…
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