William G. Weld & Co. v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. October 24,1883, the claimants recovered judgment in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims for $229,637,63, together with interest, aggregating the snm of $346,982.40, such judgment being one of the second class named in the act- of Congress entitled “An act re-establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for the distribution of the unappropriated…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. October 24,1883, the claimants recovered judgment in the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims for $229,637,63, together with interest, aggregating the snm of $346,982.40, such judgment being one of the second class named in the act- of Congress entitled “An act re-establishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, and for the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Geneva award, approved June 5, 1882 ” (22 Stat. L., 98) and duly certified and transmitted to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The only defense set up'in this case is want of jurisdiction on account of the provisions of section 1006 of the Bevised Statutes, which is as follows:
“ Sec. 1066. The jurisdiction of the said court [of Claims] shall not extend to any claim against the Government not pending therein on December one, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, growing out of or dependent on any treaty stipulation entered into with foreign nations or with the Indian tribes.”
The argument of the defendants is that as the claimants recovered judgment in the Court of…
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