Pennsylvania v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The evidence in this case being wholly documentary and involving an examination of the Treasury accounts, both of the General Government and the State of Pennsylvania, it was referred to an auditor to make and state an account, and came to a hearing upon his report. The material facts involving questions of law fully appear in the opinion of the court.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The evidence in this case being wholly documentary and involving an examination of the Treasury accounts, both of the General Government and the State of Pennsylvania, it was referred to an auditor to make and state an account, and came to a hearing upon his report. The material facts involving questions of law fully appear in the opinion of the court. The legal right of the State to recover having been determined, the next question relates to a limitation upon such right. In the case referred to the court, in construing the language of the acts of…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
The findings establish payment by plaintiff of certain necessary incidental expenses and large sums by way of interest on account of certain temporary and extended loans made on obligations of the State of Pennsylvania (for which as to the long time loans registered and coupon bonds were duly authorized and issued) for money borrowed and used by the State in enrolling, subsisting, clothing, supplying, arming, equipping, paying, and transporting its troops under the act of Congress approved July 27,1861 (12 Stat. L., 276), and the joint resolution of March 8, 1862 (12 Stat. L., 615).
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