Case ID: us-ct-cl_18/html/0758-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Harlan.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PETER F. KENDALL v. THE UNITED STATES.
    
      (107 U. S. R., 123, on appeal from 14 C. Cls. R., 122, 374.)
    The claimant’s cause of action accrued more than six years before the filing of the petition in the Court of Claims. To avoid the statute of limitations the claimant alleged' that until the proclamation of general pardon and amnesty issued by the President, December 25, 1868, he was under disability, in that, having been connected with the rebellion, he could not allege in his petition and make oath that he “had at all times bore true faith and allegiance to the Government of the United States, and that he ' had not in any way voluntarily aided, abetted, or given encouragement to rebellion against the said Government^” as required by statute (now Eev. Stat., § 1072).
    Held by the Supreme Court:
    The court, in view of the language of the statute of limitations, cannot exclude from computation, on the issue of limitation, the time intervening, between the accruing of a claim and the promulgation of the amnesty proclamation:-
    The judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing the petition was affirmed on substantially the same grounds as given by the court below.
   Opinion by

Mr. Justice Harlan.