S. S. Webb & Co. ex rel. Ford v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: In this case the defendants’ motion to dismiss for want of / jurisdiction presented the question whether one of the houses of Congress, by virtue of the Rev. Stat., § 1059, could confer jurisdiction of captured property cases $ and their demurrer to the petition presented the question whether a claim so referred could be deemed a valid cause of action. 1. The court has no jurisdiction of these cases, because they are barred by the act of…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: In this case the defendants’ motion to dismiss for want of / jurisdiction presented the question whether one of the houses of Congress, by virtue of the Rev. Stat., § 1059, could confer jurisdiction of captured property cases $ and their demurrer to the petition presented the question whether a claim so referred could be deemed a valid cause of action. 1. The court has no jurisdiction of these cases, because they are barred by the act of March 12, 1863, and section 3059 (fourth clause) ; because they are barred by section 1069, Eev. Stat. 2. The first…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case was referred to this court by the following resolution of the Senate:
“In the Senate of the United States,
“February 28,1885.
“Resolved, That the claim of S. S. Webb and Company, for the use of William G-. Ford, as embraced in Senate bill Ho. 2653, in the 48th Congress, be referred (in accordance with the provisions of section 1059 of the Revised Statutes) to the Court of Claims, together with the papers, vouchers, proof, and documents appertaining thereto.”
*491The following is a copy of the bill mentioned in said resolu-. tion:
“A BILL…
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