Burdette v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the claimants Motion. The Reporters’ statement of the case : The facts relating to this motion sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
It appears from the papers read on this motion that James Broadus was an ensign in the Second Yirginia State Regiment in the war of the Bevolution, and that James G-. Broadus was his son and one of his heirs-at-law. On the 8th January, 1850, he presented his petition to Congress, on behalf of himself and the other heirs, x-raying that they might receive the commutation of half pay which they alleged had been justly due to Ensign Broadus, but which had never been received by him. On the 22d January, 1859, the claim was referred by the House of Representatives to this court, and with it were…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Roberts v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
3Cited by2 opinions
- Balmer v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1890
- Boehm v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1886