Cole v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case:' • Tbe material allegations of tbe petition demurred to will be found set forth in tbe opinion of tbe court. , Tbe statute is too plain for argument. It was not only intended to exclude all pension matters from tbe jurisdiction of this court, but tbe act does so in terms too plain to be mistaken. But tbis matter is res judicata, so far as tbis court is concerned. Tbe question was passed upon in Gordon v. United States, 26 C. Ols.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case:' • Tbe material allegations of tbe petition demurred to will be found set forth in tbe opinion of tbe court. , Tbe statute is too plain for argument. It was not only intended to exclude all pension matters from tbe jurisdiction of this court, but tbe act does so in terms too plain to be mistaken. But tbis matter is res judicata, so far as tbis court is concerned. Tbe question was passed upon in Gordon v. United States, 26 C. Ols. B., 307, where tbe petition was dismissed for want of jurisdiction; and tbis petition should be dismissed for the same reason.…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The plaintiff avers in her petition:
“Your petitioner, Sarah Cole, alias Sarah Stevenson, respectfully represents:
“ That she is a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Jefferson, State of Missouri, and that she has a claim against the United States arising as follows:
“That she is the widow of Charles Stevenson, alias Charles Cole, who was the father of Albert Stevenson, deceased, late a soldier in Company H, Sixty-eighth Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, and that on July 6, 1891, a pension certificate, No. 296406, was issued in due form and manner, which certificate…
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- Daily v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1881
- Morse Arms Manufacturing Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1880
- Calhoon v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1889
- Boehm v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1886
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- Southworth v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1895