McKee v. United States

The appellants herein have brought this appeal for the purpose of obtaining a review of a judgment of the Court of’ Claims dismissing their petition. No opinion was delivered by that court in this case, but it was decided upon the authority of the case of Sams v. United States, 27 C. Cl. 266, which involved the construction of the same statute that is before us in this case.

It appears by the finding of the court that .one Henry McKee was the owner of certain lands, which are therein described, in the town of Beaufort,’in the parish of St. Helena, South Carolina, and that while he was such…