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21 Ct. Cl. 13

Griffin v. United States

United States Court of Claims

Decided January 11, 1886

United States Court of Claims · decided 1886-01-11

The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following is the material fact found by the court- and which constituted the subject of controversy : The claimant sailed early in January, 1879, from Montevideo to Eio Janeiro, on a steamer of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company, in company with Commodore Temple and Midshipman William GL Hannum, aud a number of naval officers, intending to sail direct from Eio Janeiro to New York, but the steamer failing to connect with the…

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Decided 1886-01-11

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Weldon, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court:

¶2It is conceded that the facts of this case are legally identical with the facts in the case of Hannum, reported in 19 O. Cls. E., 516 j but we are asked to reconsider the principles of law announced in that decision. The Assistant Attorney-General for his argument relies on the very able letter of the Hon. W. W. Upton, Second Comptroller, addressed to the Secretary of the Treasury, in which a different theory of the law is sought to be maintained than the one announced in the case reported in the nineteenth volume. We have carefully considered the question in the light of the argument as presented in this case, but do not find a sufficient reason to alter the rule of law determined in the Hannum Case. It is the opinion of the court that the claimant is entitled to recover the sum of $321.44, and for that amount a judgment will be entered.

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