Gordon v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Messrs. Goodrich and Winter Mavis in support of the right of appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Chase
The court has fully considered the able and instructive argu*2ments of counsel upon the question of jurisdiction, which presents itself at the threshold of this cause, and has found itself constrained to the conclusion that under the Constitution it can exercise no appellate jurisdiction over the decisions of the Court of Claims.
We think that the authority given to the head of an executive department, by necessary implication, in the fourteenth section of the amended Court of Claims act, to revise all the decisions of this court requiring payment of money, denies to it the judicial power from…
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