Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0750-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Taft", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SOUTHERN PACIFIC CO. v. UNITED STATES
    
      [60 C. Cls. 662; 270 U. S. 103]
    
    Judgment was rendered in the court below May 11, 1925, and plaintiff’s motion for new trial filed July 10, 1925, was denied October 26, 1925. On October 28, 1925, plaintiff made application for an appeal to the Supreme Court which was allowed by the Court of Claims November 2,1925. The appeal was dismissed and a writ of certiorari, having been applied for in due time, was granted, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. This court has no jurisdiction to consider an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims acquiring finality subsequently to the going into effect of the act of February 13, 1925, c. 229, 43 Stat. 936, which limited the method of review by this court of final judgments in the Court of Claims'to writs of certiorari.
    2. A judgment of the Court of Claims, entered before May 13, 1925, the effective date of the above act, but suspended by a motion for new trial which was denied after that date, was not appealable.
   Mr. Chief Justice Taft

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 1, 1926.