Driscoll v. United States

13 Ct. Cl. 569

• Court: Supreme Court of the United States
• Decided: July 1, 1877
• Status: Published

Opinion

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court:

This motion is denied. At the same term with the order for additional findings, in United States v. Adams (

* 9 Wall., 661), and to avoid the difficulty experienced in that case, rules 4 and 5, regulating’ appeals from the Court of Claims, were promulgated. (9 Wall., YII.) The fourth requires that court to file its finding of facts at or before the time of entering the judgment, and the fifth permits either party to call for a finding upon a special question deemed material to the judgment in the case, and, if refused, to ask this court to pass upon the materiality of the fact alleged, and, should it be considered material, to send down for the finding. Such is the construction given the rules in Mahan v. United States (14 Wall., 112). The object is to present the question here as upon an exception to the ruling of the court below in respect to the materiality of the fact. For that purpose it must have been submitted to tbe court in a written request, as provided in tbe rule. Nothing of the kind appears here. While other requests were made, this was not, and the record upon its face does not show that the court has omitted to pass upon any fact necessary to the decision of the cause. No foundation has, therefore, been laid for this application.

This decision is erroneously reported as made in tbe case of The United States v. Adams. It w’as really made in Childs, Pratt Fox's Case. (See 7 C. Cls. R., 158), where the case is reported and the mistake pointed out.