Meade v. United States
United States Court of Claims
I shall endeavor to maintain the following propositions : I. Mr. Meade, the intestate, had valid claims on the Spanish government prior to ’February 22, 1819, originating after the year 1802. The evidence on this point is full and very conclusive. He had claims for “ damages ” arising out of breaches of contract; 2d, for “ injuries.” II.
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I shall endeavor to maintain the following propositions : I. Mr. Meade, the intestate, had valid claims on the Spanish government prior to ’February 22, 1819, originating after the year 1802. The evidence on this point is full and very conclusive. He had claims for “ damages ” arising out of breaches of contract; 2d, for “ injuries.” II. The United States, for a consideration received by them from Spain, have released, Spain from all obligation to pay those claims. 1st. Under the treaty of February 22, 1819 ; 2,d. Under the treaty of February 17, 1834. The words of the 19th article treaty of…
1Opinion of the CourtCasey, Chief Justice
The action is brought to recover $373,879 88, with interest from the 19th of May, 1820, and comes before us upon the following facts :
Between the Spanish convention of 1802 and the treaty of 1819 there had accumulated and were filed in the Department of State a large number of claims by American citizens against the government of Spain. Among them was the claim of Bichard W. Meade, an American merchant, resident in Spain, for $400,000. It differed from the others in this.: that while they were claims arising from spolia-tions and injuries which Spain neither acknowledged nor denied, this one…
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