California v. United States

Plaintiff sues the defendant for $7,561,508.15, money alleged to have been spent by it in the recruiting, equipping, and supporting of its volunteer forces, and in support of its militia, during the War Between the States, and for interest on its bonds which it sold to pay these expenses, and the discount at which these bonds were sold.

The case is brought under a special jurisdictional act, approved September 25, 1950, Public Law 834, c. 1027, 81st Congress, 2d Session (64 Stat. 1032).* It is necessary to quote the Act in full, since plaintiff’s first contention is that this Act confesses…