Supreme Court of the United States December 15, 1871 (Alire v. United States)

Mr. Justice Nelson

delivered the opinion of the Court:

This is an appeal from the Court of Claims.

The petitioner, Julian Alire, in the court below sets forth that he had made application to the Commissioner of Pensions for one hundred and sixty acres of bounty land under the act of Congress of March 3, 1855, and of May 14,1856, and had conformed to the provisions of said acts, and the rules and