Dobyns v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This, it may be noted, was the first report to Congress under the recent statute “ to afford assistance and relief to Congress in the investigation of claims and demands against the United States,” commonly called the Bowman Act..
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This, it may be noted, was the first report to Congress under the recent statute “ to afford assistance and relief to Congress in the investigation of claims and demands against the United States,” commonly called the Bowman Act.. The claimant’s motion to withdraw his petition will be found in the following findings of fact filed by the court: The claimant presented to Congress a petition setting out that while he was assistant quartermaster of the United States Army suit was brought against him in his official capacity, and that he employed counsel to…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court:
Now, on this 28th of April, 1884, the court overrules the claimant’s motion for leave to withdraw his petition and for dismissal of the case, and orders that the facts be reported to the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Bepresentatives (by whom the claim was transmitted to this court), as required by the act of March 3,1883, chapter 116, section 1.*
For a similar case see that of Davis v. The United States (10 C. Cls. R., 285). The claim there sued upon had been reported favorably by the Committee on Revolutionary Claims of the House of Representatives of two…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Davis v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1874