BUCHANAN v. PATTERSON

No. 266.

190 U.S. 353 (1903)

BUCHANAN v. PATTERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 1, 1903.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Archibald H. Taylor and Mr. Edward P. Keech, Jr., for plaintiffs in error. Mr. John Pierce Bruns was on the brief.

Mr. Arthur W. Machen, Jr., Mr. Frank P. Clark and Mr Arthur W. Machen for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM, after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The contention of the plaintiffs in error is that Congress, by the acts mentioned, and particularly that of March 3, 1899, ratified and adopted the findings and decisions of the Court of Claims made in pursuance of the act of 1885, in the cases of the two ships Patapsco and Jane, and that the act of 1899 recognized and...

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