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Ripley v. United States

Citations

  • 220 U.S. 491
  • 31 S. Ct. 478
  • 55 L. Ed. 557
  • 1911 U.S. LEXIS 1692

Syllabus

<p>This court may not draw an inference of bad faith on the part of a government inspector unless the findings are so clear on the subject as to take the inference beyond controversy.</p> <p>It is the duty of the Court of Claims in dealing with the question of bad faith on the part of a government inspector to explicitly find the facts in regard to that subject.</p> <p>The Court of Claims should find as a fact whether or not complaints were made to the proper officers as to improper conduct on the part of subordinates, and if made, when and what action was taken thereon.</p> <p>Where proper findings are not made by the Court of Claims on specific • matters to enable this court to properly review the judgment, the record will be remanded to that court for additional findings as to such matters, United States v. Adams, 9 Wall. 661; and so ordered in this case, with instructions to return to this court with all convenient speed.</p> <p>45 C. Cl. 621, remanded with instructions.</p>

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  • explaining that trial courts have a clear duty to make explicit findings and cannot merely offer “ambiguous expression^] susceptible of being construed one way or another”
  • explaining that trial courts have a clear duty to make explicit findings and cannot merely offer “ambiguous expression[s] susceptible of being construed one way or another”

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