Dewey v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This was an action in the Court of Claims to recover bounty money earned by the plaintiff in error as the commanding officer of the American fleet at the naval battle of Manila on the 1st day of May, 1898.
The statute under which the action was brought is as follows: “Rev. Stat. §4635. A bounty shall be paid by the United States for each person on board any ship or vessel of war belonging to an enemy at the commencement of an engagement, which is sunk or otherwise destroyed in such engagement by any ship or vessel belonging to the United States, or which it may be necessary to destroy in…
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