Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States, Volume 59

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 210 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 87 - The balances certified by the Comptroller General shall be final and conclusive upon the executive branch of the Government.
Page 297 - WITNESSETH that the said parties of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of thirty five thousand dollars gold coin of the United States of America to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Page 233 - That hereafter immediately upon official notification of the death, from wounds or disease not the result of his own misconduct, of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the...
Page 341 - Act of 1918, a tax equal to the sum of the following percentages of the value of the net estate (determined as provided in Section 403) is hereby imposed upon the transfer of the net estate of every decedent dying after the passage of this Act, whether a resident or nonresident of the United States: ******* "Sec.
Page 454 - ... but cannot impair the right itself. That remains undiminished, and when the sovereign authority shall choose to bring it into operation, the judicial department must give effect to its will. But until that will shall be expressed, no power of condemnation can exist in the Court.
Page 64 - ... for the payment of army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court...
Page 454 - That war gives to the sovereign full right to take the persons and confiscate the property of the enemy, wherever found, is conceded.
Page 946 - Except as otherwise provided by law in the case of income, war-profits, excess-profits, estate, and gift taxes, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to remit, refund, and pay back all taxes erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, all penalties collected without authority, and all taxes that appear to be unjustly assessed or excessive in amount, or in any manner wrongfully collected...
Page 767 - Pitchlynn, shall be paid out of any funds In the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Choctaw Nation, said judgment to be rendered on the principle of quantum meruit for services rendered and expenses incurred.

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