Gordon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case having been thus: The legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased, by petition represented to the court just named, that during the lifetime of the said George,1 and in the year 1813, a • large amount of his property in Florida was taken or destroyed by the, troops of the United States. That before his decease, the. said Fisher made application to Congress for compensation for the loss and destruction of his property.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case having been thus: The legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased, by petition represented to the court just named, that during the lifetime of the said George,1 and in the year 1813, a • large amount of his property in Florida was taken or destroyed by the, troops of the United States. That before his decease, the. said Fisher made application to Congress for compensation for the loss and destruction of his property. That after his- decease this application was renewed by his legal representatives. That after a delay of several years, Congress,…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. ¡Justice GRIER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case of Ferreira * was the first to bring before us these claims,,under the treaty with-Spain in 1819. This was in. 1857, more than- thirty years after the date of the treaty. In the opinion of the Chief Justice in that ease, † will be found a concise history of the previous legislation of Congress on this subject. That case was brought here by way of appeal as from the j udgment of the District Court of Florida. And .this court was importuned to give some' utterance by which the Secretary of the Treasury might be justified in a…
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