Case Name: SARAH L. McLENORE, Administratrix, v. THE UNITED STATES
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1886-05-03
Citations: 21 Ct. Cl. 327
Docket Number: No. 176
Parties: SARAH L. McLENORE, Administratrix, v. THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 327–328

Head Matter:
SARAH L. McLENORE, Administratrix, v. THE UNITED STATES.
[No. 176. Congressional.
Decided May 3, 1886.]
On the Proofs.
The claifn is for stores and supplies taken by the Array, a claim which might have been presented to the Quartermaster-G-eneral or to the Southern Claims Commission, hut was not.
The court is prohibited by the Bowman Act (§ 3) from exercising jurisdiction in Congressional cases if the claim be barred by the Act 3d March, 1879 (SO Stat. L., 650), or the Act 3d March, 1873 (17 id., 577).
The Reporters’ statement of the case:
The facts were undisputed.
Mr. Gilbert Moyers for the claimant.
Mr. Lewis Cochran for the defendants.

Opinion:
Richardson, Cb. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claims in this case are for stores and supplies alleged to have been taken from the claimant by the military forces of the United States for their use during the late war of the rebellion, part in Shelby County, Tennessee, and part in De Soto County, Mississippi, and were transmitted to this court, December 22, 1884, by the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives, under the provisions of the Bowman Act (22 Stat. L., 485).
The ease was submitted to the court upon the evidence by Gilbert Moyers, esq., for the claimant, and by the Attorney-General, through Lewis Cochran, esq., assistant, April 29,1886.
Upon the evidence the court finds that said claims were never presented to the Southern Claims Commission nor to the Quartern: aster-Genéral. They were therefore forever barred by the Act of March 3, 1873, chapter 236, section 2 (17 Stat. L., 577), and the Act of March 3, 1879, chapter 278, section 3 (1 Supp. Rev. Stat., 481, and 20 Stat. L., 650), and by the third section of the Bowman Act are excluded from the jurisdiction of this court.
The petition is therefore dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The clerk of. the court will certify a copy of this finding to the Committee on War Claims of the House of Representatives.