Case ID: us-ct-cl_19/html/0710-01.html
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Author: {"author": "The Chiee Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE UNITED STATES v. ALBERT GRANT.
    (18 C. Cls. R., 732; 110 U. S. R., 225.)
    
      On the claimant’s motion to dismiss.
    
    Congress passes an act directing the Court of Claims to reopen and readju-dicate the claimant’s case, upon the evidence on which it was tried more than thirteen years previously, and if it should find that the court at that time gave judgment for a different sum from what it intended or what the evidence sustained, it should correct the error and adjudge to the claimant an additional sum.
    Held:
    The court finds that it did then give judgment for a different sum than was intended or the evidence sustained, and an additional judgment is ren- • dered in his favor.
    Judgment for the claimant. The defendants appeal.
    The Supreme Court decides that the act gives no right of appeal from the decision under it, and that if the right under the original judgment has expired before appeal from which judgment is taken, the appeal will be dismissed.
   The Chiee Justice

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, January 21, 1884.