Leahy v. United States

Peelle, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The defendants move to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction, on the ground that the bill referred by the resolution of the United States Senate under section 14 of the act of March 3, 1887, is not a bill providing “ for the payment of a claim against the United States, legal or equitable,” and in support of their motion they rety on the case of Bellah (39 C. Cls. R., 396).

In that case the bill referred was one authorizing and directing the Secretary of War to cause to be investigated by the Quartermaster’s Department of the United States…