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1 Texas Cattle Claims 1 (1944)

handle is hein.hoil/usatexca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TEXAS CATTLE CLAIMS Gqneral Memorandum Opinion of the American Mexican Claims Commission, Established Pursuant t6 the Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942 These claims, commonly known as the Texas cattle Nature claims, arose during. the period from the close of the American Civil War to about 1878. The principal ground of complaint, as presented by the claimant government, relates to raids from Mexico and thefts of cattle and horses of American citizens in Texas. The claims are 462 in number. The total amount claimed is $53,275,890.50. These claims were filed with the General Claims Com- mission, United States and Mexico, established under the Convention of September 8, 1923, but said Commission made no determination of them. Under the General Claims Protocol of April 24, 1934 Honorable Oscar W. Underwood, Jr., the American Commissioner designated under that Protocol, made an appraisal of them. The vast majority of them were found by him to be entitled to no award upon the ground that there was no showing of complicity or negligence on the part of Mexican authorities. Under the Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942 Petitions for to rvie apraisls n rview and this Commission is authorized to review appraisals in rsdiction of claims wherein petitions for review are filed pursuant Commission. to Section 4 of the said Act. A great number of petitions have been filed with this Commission pursuant to the provisions of the aforesaid Act, praying for review of the said appraisals. The ge: eral contention made by the claimants therein is that Commissioner Tlnderwood erred in requiring, in each claim, proof of complicity or negli- gence on the part of Mexican authorities, strong insist- ence being made by them that international liability for the losses claimed is sufficiently imputed to the Mexican Government, from the facts relating to the raids in question. . The claims covered herein having arisen under sub- stantially similar circumstances, we have deemed it ap- propriate to examine the historical background of these claims as found in the records and the facts commonly relied upon by the claimants to establish international responsibility in order to determine the correctness of the aforesaid basic principle of liability applied by Commissioner Underwood in the appraisal of these claims. 620631-44-1 Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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