Maine v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: This case, like the preceding one, was referred to an auditor to make and state an account.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: This case, like the preceding one, was referred to an auditor to make and state an account. His report will be found in extenso in the opinion of the court: “Is this claim for interest on money borrowed and expended in equipping troops so intimately connected with the principal claims already allowed that the interest claim can be held to have been settled in the settlement of the principal claims, on the doctrine that a claimant can not be allowed to split up his cause of action?” The question is not very clearly stated, but sufficiently so to understand…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The claim in this case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of the Treasury by the following communication:
“TreasuRY Department,
“Office of the Secretary,
“ Washington, D. C., March 18,1899. uThe Honorable the Chief Justice
and Jitdges of the- Court of Claims:
“At the request of the Auditor for the War Department, in his letter of the. 14th instant, I have the honor to refer to your honorable court, under section 2 of the act of Congress approved March 3, 1883 (22 Stats., 485), otherwise known as the Bowman Act, to be proceeded in according to the provisions of said section, the claim of…
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