Leonard v. United States
United States Court of Claims
These are suits brought to recover pensions withheld from the claimants and paid to the Soldiers’ Home. They were all referred to a referee to state the accounts, and his reports-therein, being confirmed by the court, constitute the findings, of fact. The facts are set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court 1
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2Opinion of the Court · RichardsonRichardson, J.
These actions are for pensions which accrued to the claimants while they were inmates 'of the Soldiers’ Home, the defendants having refused to pay them because under the construction of the law given by the Interior Department it was held that the pensions of such persons were payable to the managers of the Home for the use of that institution.
was by this court that such was not the law after the passage of the Revised- Statutes, and the Supreme Court on appeal affirmed our decision. (Bowen’s Case, 14 C. Cls. R., 162; 100 U. S. R., 508.)
The only questions now raised are upon the…
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