Perrin v. United States (79 U.S. 315)

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Perrin v. United States
by Nathan Clifford
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United States Supreme Court

79 U.S. 315

Perrin  v.  United States

APPEAL from the Court of Claims dismissing a petition before it, as not 'founded upon any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an executive department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the government of the United States;' confessedly the only cases, in which the court, by the statutes creating it, has jurisdiction.

Mr. W. W. Boice, for the appellants; Mr. Akerman, Attorney-General, and Mr. C. H. Hill, contra.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD stated the case and delivered the judgment of this court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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