Manning v. Leighton
Supreme Court of Vermont
General assumpsit. Heard at the December term, 1890, Start, J., presiding, upon the report of a i-eferee. Judgment fro forma for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The opinion states the case. There was no lien.
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General assumpsit. Heard at the December term, 1890, Start, J., presiding, upon the report of a i-eferee. Judgment fro forma for the plaintiff. The defendant excepts. The opinion states the case. There was no lien. See terms of act creating Court of Alabama Claims and R. S. U. S. §. 3,477. Also Bachman v. Lawson, 109 U. S. 659; Brooks v. Ahrens, 68 Md. 2x2 ; Wylie v. Cox, 15 How. 415 ; Trist v. Child, 2x Wall. 441 ; Wright v. Tebbitts, 91 U. S. 252 ; Sfofford v. Kirk, 97 U. ■S. 484; Hobbs v. McLean, 117 U. S. 575; Bailey v. United States, 109 U. S. 432 ; Goodman v. Hiblack, 102 U. S. 556;…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
MUNSON, J.
The tribunal of arbitration which met at Geneva, in Switzerland, under the provisions of the treaty of Washington, for the adjustment of the claims of the United States against Great Britain, known as'the Alabama claims, awarded to the United States a certain sum in gross in satisfaction of its demands. In 1874, ^ie Court of Commissioners of Alabama, Claims was established by act of Congress to effect a distribution of the sum so awarded ; but after the satisfaction of all claims which the court was authorized to allow,’a portion of the award…
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