Lippitt v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. The claimant was colonel of the Second California Volunteers, a regiment in the military service of the United States from some day preceding the 2d July, 1863, to some day subsequent to the 1st August, 1864. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are tbe facts as found by the court: I. The claimant was colonel of the Second California Volunteers, a regiment in the military service of the United States from some day preceding the 2d July, 1863, to some day subsequent to the 1st August, 1864. II. On the 2d July, 1863, the claimant, then being in command of the district of Humboldt, California, where his regiment was stationed, was ordered by the commanding general of the Department of the Pacific to report in person at the headquarters of the department, there to await further orders.…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
By the Amended Court of Claims Act 3d March, 1863 (12 Stat. L., 765, §§ 7,10; Rev. Stat., §§ 1089,069,11093), Congress for the first time attached the element of finality to thejudgments of this court, and provided that they should be satisfied at the Treasury, instead of going back, as before, to Congress for approval. At the same time and in the same statute Congress enacted the first statute of limitations applicable to demands against the government, and thereby attached to the claimant’s right of ac*152tion ia this court the following condition: “ That every claim against the United States…
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