Union Pacific Railway Co. v. United States

116 U.S. 402, 6 S. Ct. 631, 29 L. Ed. 677, 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1776

• Court: Supreme Court of the United States
• Decided: January 18, 1886
• Status: Published

Opinion

Mr. Chief Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

This motion is denied. The findings of fact on the first trial in the Court of Claims have not under our rules any place in this record. Those findings were set aside when the judgment thereon was reversed, and the cause remanded for a new trial. On this appeal we consider only the findings at the second trial.

The original petition filed in the Court of dairies contained by reference the letter of September 1, 1876. In the amended petition, on which the last trial was had, this letter was omitted. It is not, therefore, any part of the record on this appeal. We decided on the former motion to send the case back for further findings, that it could not now be brought here as part of the evidence, and that it was not the proper subject of a special finding. We see no reason to reconsider that decision.

Motion denied.