Case ID: us-ct-cl_21/html/0495-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Chief Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (20 C. Cls. R., 508; 116 U. S. R. 154; Ib., 402.)
    
      On the claimants1 Motion.
    
    After the trial and filing of the findings of fact the claimants again present their original requests, and move the court to find the facts so requested or to enter of record its refusal as to each specifically.
    The court below decides—
    
      (1.) The present practice of the court is to give to the requests of parties the fullest consideration and the most careful scrutiny, and, without ruling upon each separately, to make up, in its own language, findings which will cover every material fact asked for by either party so as to present to the appellate court a cleat and concise statement upon which questions of law may he reviewed.
    (2.) When, after trial, no specific fact is requested, but only a specific ruling on each of numerous requests previously presented at the trial, the motion will be overruled.
    (3.) The requests for findings of fact submitted by the parties before trial form no part of the record for appeal; nor can the parties make them ■ a part of the record by annexing them to a motion that the court, find specifically as to each.
    
      The claimants more in the Supreme Court to require the court below to send up the evidence or find specifically on certain requests for findings made by the claimants. The Supreme Court deny the motion upon substantially the grounds set forth in the decision of the court below.
   The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court, December 21, 1885.

Subsequently, on January 18,1886, the Chief Justice delivering the opinion of the court, the Supreme Court, upon a motion for a writ of certiorari on behalf of the claimants, reaffirmed this decision and denied the motion. (116 U. S. R., 402.)