Terrill v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: At the time of the depredations, hereinafter stated, claimant was a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Young-, State of Texas. He now resides in El Paso Count}1-, State of Colorado.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: At the time of the depredations, hereinafter stated, claimant was a citizen of the United States, residing in the county of Young-, State of Texas. He now resides in El Paso Count}1-, State of Colorado. At the time of the various depredations claimant was possessed, of considerable means and property and traded extensively in stock; was fulfilling or attempting to fulfill valuable contracts for the delivery of the kind of property which he says he lost under the circumstances…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
Plaintiff is a citizen of the United States residing in the State of Colorado, but at the time of the occurrences hereinafter mentioned he resided in Young County, in the State of Texas. He brings suit under the act providing for the adjudication and payment of claims arising from the depredations of Indians (26 Stat. L., 851) for losses alleged in the amended petition to have been sustained by him, amounting to $77,425, for which judgment is prayed. This is something less than the amount set forth in the original petition, one of the depredations originally stated having been abandoned by…
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