Stone v. United States
Decision Date | 30 November 1896 |
Docket Number | No. 113,113 |
Citation | 164 U.S. 380,17 S.Ct. 71,41 L.Ed. 477 |
Parties | STONE v. UNITED STATES et al |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
On April 16, 1891, appellant, under authority of the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 851), filed his petition in the court of claims to recover the sum of $12,375 for certain property, to wit, two geldings, of the value of $500 each, and 91 head of horses, of the value of $125 each, alleged to have been taken or destroyed by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians on November 17, 1867. A traverse having been filed, the case was submitted to the court upon the evidence. Certain findings of fact were made, the second of which is as follows:
Upon this finding judgment was entered in favor of the defendants (29 Ct. Cl. 111), from which judgment the claimant appealed to this court.
Charles A. Kiegwin and J. M. Wilson, for appellant.
Asst. Atty. Gen. Howry, for appellees.
Mr. Justice BREWER, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.
The findings of the court of claims in an action at law determine all matters of fact, precisely as the verdict of a jury. 24 Stat. 505, §§ 2, 7; 26 Stat. 851, §§ 1, 4; Desmare v. U. S., 93 U. S. 605, 610; McClure v. U. S., 116 U. S. 145, 6 Sup. Ct. 321.
That court finds that the claimant, upon whom rests the burden of proof, has not proved the extent of the depredation or the value of the property; and, there being thus a case of a failure of proof, judgment properly went against the party upon whom the burden rested. Counsel for appellant contend that the court of claims has attempted to create a rule of evidence as to the number of witnesses required in different classes of cases. Beyond the language of this finding, they call our attention to the opinion, in which, after a reference to the peculiar circumstances of this case, the court observes: 'The court has no reason, in this particular case, other than the lapse of time and the...
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