Carter v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters'' statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tlie case as found by tbe court: .1. At tbe time of tbe several depredations hereinafter found, and each of them, the claimants and each of them were citizens of the United States. II.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters'' statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of tlie case as found by tbe court: .1. At tbe time of tbe several depredations hereinafter found, and each of them, the claimants and each of them were citizens of the United States. II. On the 12th September, 1866, Isaac Coe and Levy Carter, partners under the name and style of Coe & Carter, were the owners of property of the kind and character alleged in their petition, which was at the time and place of the reasonable value of more than three thousand dollars. III. On the 12th September and the 28th October,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
Judgments were rendered in these cases January 11,1893, on an agreed stipulation under section 4 of the Indian depredation act, March 3,1891 (26 Stat. L., 851; 1 Supp. Rev. Stat., 2d ed., p. 913). But the defendants within the time allowed under Revised Statutes, section 1088, filed motions for a new trial, which, after elaborate argument, were granted and the cases were subsequently reargued.
The claimants seek to recover, as alleged in their respective petitions, for depredations committed by the Ogalalia band of the defendant Indians on the 12th September and the 28th October, 1866, and in…
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