Stovel v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: This case came before the court on an application by the claimant, the master or executive officer of the Nanshan, that the Auditor be instructed that he is entitled to participate in the bounty awarded to the fleet at Manila, under a previous decision of the court.
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The Reporters' statement of the case: This case came before the court on an application by the claimant, the master or executive officer of the Nanshan, that the Auditor be instructed that he is entitled to participate in the bounty awarded to the fleet at Manila, under a previous decision of the court. The following is the application: “Now comes the claimant, Edwin E. Stovell, by his attorney, Charles W. Clagett, and moves the court— “1st. For leave to call on the Navy and other departments for all documentary evidence bearing upon the part taken by the above vessel, her captain, officers,…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldoN, J.
The claimant filed a petition, No. 3892, to share in the bounty money as incident to the destruction of the -Spanish fleet in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, and the court is asked to instruct the Auditor as to the right of the claimant to participate in that bounty,
In the case of Admiral Dewey v. The United States (35 C. Cls. R., 172) it was found by the court that on May 1,1898, an engagement took place between the following vessels of the United States Navy, to wit, the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Boston, the Raleigh, the Concord, the Petrel, the McCullough, the Nanshan, and the Zafiro, and the…
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- Dewey v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1900