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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

IN RE JOSEPH T. H. HALL, PETITIONER.
    [Not reported in Ct. Cls. R.;
    167 U. S., 38.]
    A judgment in the Court of Claims against the District of Columbia recovered in a suit brought under the act of February 13, 1895, was reversed because interest on the original claim had been improperly allowed, and the case was remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with the opinion of this court. The mandate was filed in the Court of Claims and application was made for judgment without the interest. Before the court acted upon this application, the act of February 13, 1895, authorizing the original judgment, was repealed, and the Court of Claims declined to enter judgment as prayed for. The claimant thereupon applied to this court for a mandamus to require the Court of Claims to enter jrrdgment.
    The application for a writ of mandamus is denied. The Supreme Court holds that the effect of the repealing act was to take away the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to proceed further in any case founded upon the repealed act; but that this court did not intimate by this decision that that court would not have jurisdiction to entertain and grant a motion on the part of the petitioner to reinstate the original judgment.
   Mr. Justice Peckham

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, May 10, 1897.