United States v. Ferreira
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United. States for the Northern District of Florida. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. after giving a' history of the cause and the laws, proceeded.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United. States for the Northern District of Florida. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court. after giving a' history of the cause and the laws, proceeded. The District Judge, being satisfied with, the causes assigned why this claim'was not presented under the act of 1834, adjudicated to the petitioner, upon his claim and proof, as the amount or value of his losses, $6,080, and for interest thereon at the rate of 5 per cent, from the tenth of May, 1813, to the 26th June, 1835, $6,726.83, making in all $12,806.83. From this…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This purports to be an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of, Florida. The case brought before the court is this :
The treaty of 1819 by which Spain ceded Florida to the United States, contains the following stipulation in the 9th article.
“ The United States shall cause satisfaction to be made for the injuries if any, which by process of law shall be established to have been suffered by the Spanish officers and individual Spanish inhabitants by the late operations of the American army in Florida.”
In 1823 Congress passed an act to carry, into execution…
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