Craycroft v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The returns from the War Department show the military record of the claimant to be as follows: Thomas J. Cray-croft was enrolled June 12, 1863, at Louisville, Ky., for three years, mustered in as a sergeant in Company B, Thirty-fourth Kentucky Infantry, September 10,1863. The rolls of his company show him absent as follows: August 31, 1864, on detached service,…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The returns from the War Department show the military record of the claimant to be as follows: Thomas J. Cray-croft was enrolled June 12, 1863, at Louisville, Ky., for three years, mustered in as a sergeant in Company B, Thirty-fourth Kentucky Infantry, September 10,1863. The rolls of his company show him absent as follows: August 31, 1864, on detached service, commissioned and acting adjutant, Eleventh Tennessee Cavalry; October 31, 1864, transferred and commissioned as first lieutenant…
1Opinion of the CourtBarNey, J.
The question in this case arises upon the motion of the defendants for a new trial; and as the case of the claimant is all made by evidence already submitted, and about which there is no dispute, the whole case was submitted upon said motion.
This is a suit brought by the plaintiff to recover the salary claimed to be due him under the remuster act of February 24, 1897 (29 Stat., 593). That part of said act which has particular application to this case is as follows:
“That any person who was duly appointed or commissioned to be an officer of the volunteer service during the War of the Rebellion…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Green v. Menominee Tribe of IndiansUnited States Court of Claims · 1911