Daigle v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The claim in the above-entitled cause-is for stores and supplies alleged to have been furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the war for the suppression of the rebellion. The claim was first referred to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The claim in the above-entitled cause-is for stores and supplies alleged to have been furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the war for the suppression of the rebellion. The claim was first referred to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the. House of Representatives, under- the act of March 3, 1883. On a preliminary hearing the claimants’ decedent, Isidore Daigle, was, on June 4, 1888, found not to have been loyal to the Government of the United States throughout the late civil war, and the cause was…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claim in this case is for stores and supplies taken by the military forces of the United States for their use from the claimant’s decedent in West Baton Rouge Parish, La., during the late civil war.
The claim was originally referred to the court by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives under the act of March 3, 1883, commonly known as the Bowman Act (22 Stat. L., 485).
Under that reference the court on a preliminary inquiry found that the claimant’s decedent, from whom the stores and supplies were taken, was not loyal…
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