Price v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of the case as found by tbe court: I. At tbe time of tbe depredation hereinafter stated, claimant’s 'decedent, Henry 0. Miller, was a citizen of tbe United States and a resident of tbe State of Missouri, where claimant now resides. II.
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The Reporters’’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts of the case as found by tbe court: I. At tbe time of tbe depredation hereinafter stated, claimant’s 'decedent, Henry 0. Miller, was a citizen of tbe United States and a resident of tbe State of Missouri, where claimant now resides. II. On tbe 26th day of June, 1847, near the Arkansas .River, on tbe route from western Missouri to Santa Fe, at a place in what is now tbe State of Kansas, Indians belonging to tbe Osage tribe took and drove away 32 bead of oxen, tbe property of said decedent, which at tbe time and place of taking…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldoN, J.
The petition embraces two claims of different parties, having distinct and separate interests, and therefore separate judgments will be rendered on the claim of each. In the year 1847, the decedent Henry C. Miller and the decedent Philip W. Thompson, both being native-born citizens of the United States, were owners in severalty of 44 head of oxen, 5 wagons, and a large amount of dry goods.
While they were so possessed, the defendants, the Osage Indians, then being in a state of amity with the United States, attached the train of said decedents and took from their possession about 40 head of…
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