Hammond v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporter's statement of the case: This is a claim for payment of travel allowances alleged to be due said claimant as one of the beneficiaries under Senate bill 9501, which was referred to this court May 22, 1908, by resolution of the United States Senate for proceedings" under the act of March 3, 1887, known as the Tucker Act.
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On the Proofs. The Reporter's statement of the case: This is a claim for payment of travel allowances alleged to be due said claimant as one of the beneficiaries under Senate bill 9501, which was referred to this court May 22, 1908, by resolution of the United States Senate for proceedings" under the act of March 3, 1887, known as the Tucker Act. The second section of said bill is applicable to this case and reads as follows: “Sec. 2. That the Secretary of- the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to each…
1Opinion of the CourtHownv, Judge
This is a claim for travel pay and subsistence by a former officer who commenced his Army duties at Indianapolis, Ind., and who resigned from the military service February 26, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn. — the travel pay and subsistence claimed being from the place of discharge to the place of enrollment — and notwithstanding the resignation was tendered and accepted to suit the officer’s convenience. *220The petition was filed September 13, 1910. The claimant, relying upon the Army records, offered no proof. Findings were filed November 11, 1912, including the statement that the officer was…
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- United States v. SweetSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Sanderson v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1906