Source: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/270/151/
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 12:02:21+00:00

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1. Under Rule 90 of the Court of Claims, after a motion for new trial has been overruled, another cannot be made without leave of court. P. 270 U. S. 153.
2. The ninety days allowed by Jud.Code § 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. P. 270 U. S. 153.
Appeal from 59 Ct.Cls. 139 dismissed.
"In this state of the record, the court is in doubt whether an appeal is allowable, but grants the appeal to give plaintiff the benefit of any doubt upon the question. "
"Whenever it is desired to question the correctness or the sufficiency of the court's findings of fact or its conclusions or to amend the same, the complaining party shall file a motion which shall be known and maybe considered as a motion for a new trial. All grounds relied upon for any or all of said objects shall be included in one motion. After the court has announced its decision upon such motion, no other motion by the same party shall be filed unless by leave of court. Motions for new trial, except as provided by § 1088 of the Revised Statutes (Sec. 175 of the Judicial Code) shall be filed within sixty days from the time the judgment of the court is announced."
"All appeals from the Court of Claims shall be taken within ninety days after the judgment is rendered, and shall be allowed under such regulations as the Supreme Court may direct."
It is clear from the sequence of dates above given that more than 90 days elapsed between the overruling of the motion for a new trial and application for appeal by the appellant. The appellant contends that the motion for leave to file a motion for a new trial on June 9, 1924, prevented the beginning of the period of limitation within which application for an appeal could be made to the judgment of the Court of Claims, and therefore that the appeal taken on the 5th of September was within the statutory 90 days.
initiated begins from the date of the denial of either the motion or petition. Brockett v. Brockett, 2 How. 238, 43 U. S. 241; Washington, G. & A. Railroad Co. v. Bradley, 7 Wall. 575, 74 U. S. 578; Memphis v. Brown, 94 U. S. 715, 94 U. S. 718; Texas & Pacific Railway Co. v. Murphy, 111 U. S. 488, 111 U. S. 489; Aspen Mining & Smelting Co. v. Billings, 150 U. S. 31, 150 U. S. 36; Kingman v. Western Manufacturing Co., 170 U. S. 675, 170 U. S. 678; United States v. Ellicott, 223 U. S. 524, 223 U. S. 539; Andrews v. Virginian Railway, 248 U. S. 272; Chicago, Great Western Railway Co. v. Basham, 249 U. S. 164, 249 U. S. 167. The suspension of the running of the period limited for the allowance of an appeal, after a judgment has been entered, depends upon the due and seasonable filing of the motion for a new trial or the petition for rehearing. In this case, after the first motion for a new trial had been overruled, on May 4, 1924, no motion for a new trial could be duly and seasonably filed under Rule 90 of the Court of Claims, except upon leave of the Court of Claims. This leave, though applied for twice, was not granted. Applications for leave did not suspend the running of the 90 days after the denial of the motion for a new trial within which the application for appeal must have been made. For that reason, the motion of the government to dismiss the appeal as not in time, and so, for lack of jurisdiction, must be granted.

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