Frelinghuysen v. Key
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. . These causes originated in petitions to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for mandamus upon the Secretary of State to compel him to pay to the petitioners (representing claims proved before the commission established under the Claims Convention of July 4th, 1868, with Mexico), their distributive shares of certain payments made by Mexico to. the United States in accordance with the terms of that…
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IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. . These causes originated in petitions to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, for mandamus upon the Secretary of State to compel him to pay to the petitioners (representing claims proved before the commission established under the Claims Convention of July 4th, 1868, with Mexico), their distributive shares of certain payments made by Mexico to. the United States in accordance with the terms of that convention. The following are the facts as recited by the court, and on which the opinion is based. On the 4th of July, 1868, a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
If we understand correctly the positions assumed by the different counsel for the relators, they are:
1. That the awards under the convention vested in the several claimants an absolute right to the amounts awarded them respectively, and that this right was property which neither the United States alone, nor the United States and Mexico together, could take away; and,
2. That, if this were not so, the action of President Hayes, under the 5th section of the act of 1878, was conclusive on President Arthur, and deprived him of any right he might otherwise have had to investigate the charges of…
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