Stegeman v. United States

An appeal having been taken to this court from a decision of the Board of General Appraisers, an application has been made for an *209order remanding the case to the Board of General Appraisers with instructions to hear additional evidence therein and return the same to this court.

This application presents the important question of the power of this court to direct a rehearing of a case before the Board of General Appraisers, as the testimony proposed to be introduced is claimed to be in the nature of newly discovered testimony, and its production would call for a rehearing of the case and a new…