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54TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. DOCUMENT
1st Session. No. 56.
S. L. WALLACE, ADMINISTRATOR, AND OTHERS.
Letter from the assistant clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a copy
of the findings filed by the court in the cases of S. L. Wallace, adminis-
trator, William F. Perry, Tobias Tenpenny, and Luke Lee against the
United States.
DECEMBER 12, 1895.-Referred to the Committee on War Claims, and ordered to be
printed.
COURT OF CLAIMS, CLERK'S OFFICE,
Washington, December 11, 1895.
SIR: Pursuant to the order of the court I transmit herewith a cer-
tified copy of the findings field by the court in each of the aforesaid
causes, which cases were referred to this court by the Committee on
War Claims House of Representatives, under the act of March 3, 1883.
I am, very respectfully, yours, etc.,
JOHN RANDOLPH,
Assistant Clerk Court of Claim8.
Hon. THoxAs B. REED,
Speaker of the House of Representative8.
[Court of Claims. Congressional, No. 8826. Mason Jone v. The United States.]
This case being a claim for supplies or stores alleged to have been taken by or
furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use during the late
war for the suppression of the rebellion, the court, on a preliminary inquiry, finds
that Mason Jones, the person alleged to have furnished such supplies or stores, or
from whom the same are alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of
the United States throughout said war.
By THE COURT.
Filed January 7, 1895.
[Court of Claims. Congressional case No. 8826. S. L. Wallace, administrator of Mason Jones
deceased, v. The United States.]
STATEMENT OF CASE.
The claim in the above-entitled case, for supplies or stores alleged to have been
taken by or furnished to the military forces of the United States for their use dur-
ing the late war for the suppression of the rebellion, was transmitted to the court
by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives on the 24th day
of March, 1892.
On a preliminary inquiry the court, on the 7th day of January, 1895, found that
the person alleged to have furnished the supplies or stores, or from whom they were
alleged to have been taken, was loyal to the Government of the United States
throughout said war.
The case was brought to a hearing on its merits on the 7th day of November, 1895.
Gilbert Moyers esq., appeared for claimant, and the Attorney-General, by Charles
W. Russell, esq., his assistant, and under his direction, appeared for the defense and
wrotection of the interests of the United States.
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