SHECKELS v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 144.

246 U.S. 338 (1918)

SHECKELS, SURVIVING EXECUTRIX OF SHECKELS, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 18, 1918.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John Raum, with whom Mr. V.B. Edwards was on the briefs, for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Thompson for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal by claimant in a suit that was commenced by her testator in the Court of Claims in the year 1880, under Act of June 16, 1880, c. 243, 21 Stat. 284. A judgment was rendered in claimant's favor after the amendatory Act of February 13, 1895, c. 87, 28 Stat. 664 (Johnson v. District of Columbia, 31 Ct.Clms. 395), which judgment was reversed by this court in 1897, and the cause remanded...

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