Peabody v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant in No. 27502, Samuel Ellery Jennison, is a citizen of the United States and a resident of Battery Point, in the State of Maine. II. Mary E. Peabody is a citizen of the United States and a resident of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a single woman.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant in No. 27502, Samuel Ellery Jennison, is a citizen of the United States and a resident of Battery Point, in the State of Maine. II. Mary E. Peabody is a citizen of the United States and a resident of Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and a single woman. The Saco and Biddeford Savings Institution is a corporation organized under the laws of Maine and doing business in York County in the State of Maine. The Portsmouth Harbor Land and Plotel…
1Opinion of the CourtBarney, J.
The above suits have been consolidated by stipulation, and for the purposes of this decision will be treated as one case. In fact, we see no reason why they were not originally brought as one case.
These suits are to recover compensation for property alleged to have been taken by the United States in the exercise of its power of eminent domain and for which no compensation has been made pursuant to the fifth amendment of the Constitution.
The original petition in this suit was demurred to by defendants, and this demurrer was sustained by the court. {Peabody v. United States, 43 C. Cls. R., 19.)…
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- Huse v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1907
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- Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hotel Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1918