Russell v. United States
United States Court of Claims
This suit is instituted in this court by original petition, and the claimant seeks to recover by it the sum of one hundred and eleven tlwtisand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and tlvirty-three cents. The claim is made up of several items of charge, which may be briefly stated as follows : 1st. The value of the use of the steamboats J. H. Russell, Liberty, and Time and Tide, while used and employed by the United States, as stated in the claimant’s petition. 2d.
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This suit is instituted in this court by original petition, and the claimant seeks to recover by it the sum of one hundred and eleven tlwtisand eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and tlvirty-three cents. The claim is made up of several items of charge, which may be briefly stated as follows : 1st. The value of the use of the steamboats J. H. Russell, Liberty, and Time and Tide, while used and employed by the United States, as stated in the claimant’s petition. 2d. The expenses of said boats, paid by the claimant, while in the service of the United States. 3d. The damage to said boats while…
1Opinion of the Court
Casey, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claim set up in this case is founded upon the services of several steamboats owned by the claimant, rendered to the-*128United States, at tbe times and under the circumstances hereafter detailed.
I. The claimant alleges and proves that he was the owner of the side-wheel steamer J. H. Russell, and that this steamer in the latter part of August, 1863, arrived at St. Louis, Missouri, from New Orleans. She was about to take on a cargo of private freight at rates varying from two dollars to three dollars per hundred-weight, with horses and cattle on…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Mitchell v. HarmonySupreme Court of the United States · 1852
- Bogert v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1866
3Cited by3 opinions
- Federal Sugar Refining Co. v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1925
- Russell v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1879
- Merriam v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1894