Legal Opinion
New Hampshire v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided November 28, 1901No. Departmental 28Published
The Reporters’ statement of the case: > Tbe evidence in this case being wholly documentary and involving an examination of tbe Treasury accounts, both of the General Government and the State of Maine, it was referred to an auditor to make and state an account, and came to a hearing upon his report. The material facts involving questions of law fully appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
"Weldon, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This is a proceeding founded on the letter of the honorable Secretary of the Treasury, -dated March 18, 1899, addressed to the chief justice and judges of the Court of Claims. In that letter it is said:
“I have the honor to refer to your honorable court, under section 2, act of Congress approved March 3, 1883 (22 Stat. L., 485), otherwise known as the Bowman Act, to be proceeded in according to the provisions of said section, the claim of the State of blew Hampshire, aggregating $780,369.68* filed in the Auditor’s office March 22, 1898, for…
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- Waddell v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1890
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