UNITED STATES v. BABCOCK

Nos. 708, 915.

250 U.S. 328 (1919)

UNITED STATES v. BABCOCK. UNITED STATES v. HAYDEN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 2, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson for the United States.

Mr. George A. King, with whom Mr. William B. King and Mr. William E. Harvey were on the briefs, for appellees.


MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

These cases, which were argued together, are appeals by the United States from judgments entered in the Court of Claims. In each an officer in the army recovered compensation under the Act of March 3, 1885, c. 335, 23 Stat. 350, for the loss, while in the service, without fault or negligence on his part, of privately owned personal property. In each case the claim had been duly presented within two years of...

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