Royse v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: This is a claim for the refund of $300 to each of the claimants named in Finding XV, being the amount paid by each of them or their decedents in order to secure exemption from personal service under the draft made by the military authorities of the United States in the State of Kentucky in the year 1864. The following bill was referred to the court on the 27th day of May, 1910, by resolution, under the Tucker Act: “ A…
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: This is a claim for the refund of $300 to each of the claimants named in Finding XV, being the amount paid by each of them or their decedents in order to secure exemption from personal service under the draft made by the military authorities of the United States in the State of Kentucky in the year 1864. The following bill was referred to the court on the 27th day of May, 1910, by resolution, under the Tucker Act: “ A BIXjIj For the reliei of Ludwell McKay and others. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
These cases are of a class numbering more than 2,000 involving claims for men drafted into the military service of the United States in the spring of 1864. The amount claimed in the cases as represented by all classes of the demands now being prosecuted in this court makes a total of over $646,800.
*344The claims are familiarly known as the Kentucky drafted cases. There are three classes: (1) Cases where a man was drafted and released from the obligation to render personal service upon payment of $300 commutation money; (2) cases where a man was drafted and was released upon furnishing a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Marshall v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1886
3Cited by2 opinions
- Ex parte DostalDistrict Court, N.D. Ohio · 1917
- Church v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1913