Case: CHARLES A. NESBITT AND CHARLES A. MOORE v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SIOUX INDIANS
Abbreviation: Nesbitt v. United States
Decision Date: 1902-05-19
Docket Number: 
Citation: 37 Ct. Cl. 558
Volume: 37
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: CHARLES A. NESBITT AND CHARLES A. MOORE v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SIOUX INDIANS.
Judges: 
Pages: 558–558

Head Matter:
CHARLES A. NESBITT AND CHARLES A. MOORE v. THE UNITED STATES AND THE SIOUX INDIANS.
[Not reported in C. Cls. R.;
186 U. S. R., 153.]
On the claimants'1 Appeal.
The petition was dismissed by the court below on the defendant’s plea to the jurisdiction based on the fact that the depredation charged was alleged to have been committed “prior to the 1st of July, I860, and that no claim for "such depredation was ever presented to the Secretary of the Interior, or the Congress of the United States, or any superintendent, agent, subagent, or commissioner authorized under any act of Congress to inquire into such claims within the meaning of the first proviso of th«*sccond section of the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. L., 851).
The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.

Opinion:
Mr. justice McKenna
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court May 19, 1902.