United States v. Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims. On the 12th of April, 1873, Clark filed his petition in the Court of Claims praying relief from responsibility, under the act of May 9, 1866,14 Stat. 44, on account of the loss, by robbery, of funds to the amount of $15,979.87 belonging to the United States, and in his hands as a paymaster in the army. The United States pleaded the general issue and the Statute of Limitations..
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Appeal from the Court of Claims. On the 12th of April, 1873, Clark filed his petition in the Court of Claims praying relief from responsibility, under the act of May 9, 1866,14 Stat. 44, on account of the loss, by robbery, of funds to the amount of $15,979.87 belonging to the United States, and in his hands as a paymaster in the army. The United States pleaded the general issue and the Statute of Limitations.. The court found the facts as follows: — 1. On the 6th April, 1865, the claimant lost, by robbery, while in the line of his duty as assistant paymaster in the army at Franklin, Texas, a…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
Our rules regulating appeals from the Court of Claims require that the record shall contain, among other things, “ a finding by the Court of Claims of the facts in the case established by the evidence, in the nature of a special verdict, but not the evidence establishing them, and a separate statement of the conclusions of law upon said facts on which the court founds its judgment or decree. The finding of facts and conclusions of law to be certified to this court as a part of the record.” Rule 1, sect. 2.
The act of Congress under which this action was prosecuted does not dispense with these…
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