Payne v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statment of the case: The following are the material allegations of the petition so far as it relates to the question of jurisdiction: That on the 5th day of November, 1862, the military lines of the United.
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The Reporters’ statment of the case: The following are the material allegations of the petition so far as it relates to the question of jurisdiction: That on the 5th day of November, 1862, the military lines of the United. States Army were extended so as to include the plantation of your petitioner, and that on the 9th day of November, 1862,' General Butler, then in command of the Department of the Gulf, issued his general order, No. 91, declaring that all property situate within the district to be known as the “District of La Fourche,” comprising all the territory in the State of Louisiana…
1Opinion of the Court
Bichakdson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case was referred to the court by the Committee on Claims of the Senate, January 26,1884, under the provisions, of the Act of March 3,1883, chapter 116 (22 Stat. L., 485).
On a preliminary inquiry the court found the claimant to have been loyal to the Government of the United States throughout the war.
The case was tried December 26, 1886, on a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction, by Edward M. Watson, esq., of the Attorney-General’s office, for the defendants,' and by T. H. N. McPherson, esq., for the claimant.
It appears by the…
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