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Supreme Court· 4/16/1888

United States v. Weld

Citations

  • 127 U.S. 51
  • 8 S. Ct. 1000
  • 32 L. Ed. 62
  • 1888 U.S. LEXIS 1962

Syllabus

<p>In order to make a claim against the United States one arising out of a treaty within the meaning of Rev. Stat. § 1066, excluding it from the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, the right itself, which the petition ma'kes to be the foundation of the claim, must derive its life and existence from some treaty stipulation.</p> <p>A claim against the United States made under the provisions of the act of June 5, 1882, 22 Stat. 98, c. 195, “ reestablishing the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims and for the distribution of unappropriated moneys of the Geneva Award,” is not a claim growing out of the treaty of Washington within the sense of the word “.treaty,” as used in Rev. Stat. § 1066.</p> <p>The payment of the expenses of the Geneva Arbitration has not been charged by Congress upon the fund received under the award made there.</p>

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  • reviewing a case involving the predecessor statute to 28 U.S.C. § 1502, and concluding that the “statute contemplates a direct and proximate connection between the treaty and the claim, in order to bring such claim within the class excluded from the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims”

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Judges: Lamar

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