Yoes v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts in this case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Jacob Yoes, is a citizen of the United States, residing in the State of Arkansas, and from May 29,1889, to March 3,1893, was marshal of the United States for the western district of said State, duly appointed, qualified, and acting as such. II.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts in this case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Jacob Yoes, is a citizen of the United States, residing in the State of Arkansas, and from May 29,1889, to March 3,1893, was marshal of the United States for the western district of said State, duly appointed, qualified, and acting as such. II. During said period the claimant, as such marshal, by his duly appointed deputies hereinafter set forth, performed services for and on behalf of the United States in traveling 224,152 miles to serve 1,550 writs, as…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
Judgment was heretofore rendered in this case for $5,339.12, but by reason of an error in the finding that tbe amount of tbe counterclaim was $8,110, when it should have been $8,810 (see opinion 30 C. Cls. R., 370), tbe defendants filed a motion to correct tbe findings and tbe judgment, and the claimant, treating tbe motion as equivalent to a motion for a new trial, consented in open court that a new trial might be granted, to which tbe defendants made no objection, and a new trial was allowed.
Tbe case is now before us, therefore, on tbe new…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- McElrath v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- United States v. HarmonSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Yoes v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1895
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- Maine v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1901