Green v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The foil owing are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. At the times hereafter referred to, James Green, the testator of the claimants, was the owner of certain real property in Alexandria, Va., and of the hotel thereon situated, known as the Mansion House.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The foil owing are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. At the times hereafter referred to, James Green, the testator of the claimants, was the owner of certain real property in Alexandria, Va., and of the hotel thereon situated, known as the Mansion House. He was also a resident of Alexandria, domiciled within the Confederate lines.' The defendants, by their military officers, occupied and used the said hotel and premises for the purposes of a military hospital from the 11th November, 1861, until the 30th June, 1865, and acquired the use and…
1Opinion of the Court
Nott,. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
' • This case presents the phenomenon of a meritorious cause of action and a vigilant claimant upon the one hand, with the bar of the statute of limitations upon the other. But the learned counsel for the claimanthas urged in an argument of great force and ingenuity that* notwithstanding the lapse of tóme, the statute does not bar a recovery, inasmuch as the claimant was prevented from bringing his action by tlie mistakes, negligences, and fraudulent concealments of the defendants’ officers; and he regards the case as coming within the spirit, if…
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