United States v. Winchester & Potomac Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This appeal brought up for review a judgment in favor of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company for the sum of thirty thousand three hundred and forty dollars, the value of certain iron rails removed in 1862 from the track of that railroad by the military authorities of the United States.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This appeal brought up for review a judgment in favor of the Winchester and Potomac Railroad Company for the sum of thirty thousand three hundred and forty dollars, the value of certain iron rails removed in 1862 from the track of that railroad by the military authorities of the United States. It seems necessary to a clear understanding of the questions presented that the history of this claim and the circumstances attending its prosecution against the United States should be fully stated. In 1862 and for many years prior thereto the appellee, a corporation of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hablan
The United States contends that the claim in question is not one of which the Court of Claims could take cognizance for purposes of final adjudication; that the case is not one of implied contract; and that the Government is protected from any judgment against it by the statutory limitation of six years. The first of these questions does not seem to have been raised in the court below.
The act of February 24, 1855, c. 122, by which the Court of Claims was constituted, gave it jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims against the United States “ founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any…
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