Fisher v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tke case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was chief justice of Wyoming Territory from February 14, 1876, to November 26, 1879. II. Up to and including June 30,1877, he was paid his salary, at the rate of $3,000 a year. III.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tke case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was chief justice of Wyoming Territory from February 14, 1876, to November 26, 1879. II. Up to and including June 30,1877, he was paid his salary, at the rate of $3,000 a year. III. From the 30th of June, 1877, to and including November 26, 1879, he was paid, and received without protest, compensation as such chief justice, at the rate of $2,600 a year. Upon the foregoing findings of fact, the court decided as a conclusion of law, pro forma, in order that the…
1DissentDavis, J.
I dissent from so much of the opinion of the court as holds that the claimant is not entitled to recover.
The three words uin full compensation” may work some ambiguity in the statute, and by a generous expansion they can undoubtedly be made to effect an entire change of all previous laws inconsistent with the provisions which follow them. But *331courts do not favor repeals of statute by implication, and never regard a series of statutes as tbus repealed unless tlie new act is absolutely inconsistent with the old ones, or revises the whole subject-matter and is evidently intended as a substitute.…
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