BASSO v. UNITED STATES

No. 143.

239 U.S. 602 (1916)

BASSO v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 17, 1916.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry M. Ward for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Huston Thompson for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellant is a Spanish subject who resided, at the time his alleged cause of action accrued and at the time his petition was filed in the Court of Claims, in the Island of Porto Rico.

Porto Rico was ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris, ratifications of which were exchanged April 11, 1899. The Island was occupied by the military forces of the United...

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