MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
We are clearly of the opinion that the acceptance by the claimant, without objection, of the amount allowed by the Secretary of the Navy, in his adjustment of the account presented to him, was equivalent to a final settlement and compromise of all the items of the present claim included in that account. There is nothing in the finding of the court below to warrant a judgment in favor of the claimant upon...
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