Case ID: us-ct-cl_62/html/0752-01.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

MORSE v. UNITED STATES
    [59 C. Cls. 139; 270 U. S. 151]
    Judgment was rendered in the court below January 21, 1924, and on May 4, 1924, plaintiff’s motion for new trial filed March 19, 1924, was overruled. On May 28, 1924, plaintiff presented a motion for leave to file a motion to amend the findings of fact, which was overruled June 2, 1924. On June 9, 1924, plaintiff presented a motion for leave to file a motion to reconsider and grant a new trial, which was overruled the same day. On September 5, 1924, plaintiff made application for an appeal to the Supreme Court, which was allowed by the Court of Claims October 13, 1924. The appeal was dismissed, the Supreme Court deciding:
    1. Under Bule 90 of the Court of Claims, after a motion for a new trial has been overruled another can not be made without leave of court.
    2. The ninety days allowed by Judicial Code section 243 for appeal to this court from a judgment of the Court of Claims, began to run from the day when that court denied a duly and seasonably filed motion for a new trial, and was not postponed by the subsequent presentation of a motion (which the court likewise denied) for leave to file a further motion for a new trial.
   Mr. Chief Justice Taft

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