Union Pacific Railway Co. v. United States

When a judgment of the Court of Claims is reversed and the case is remanded for new trial, the findings of fact on the first trial form no part of the record on appeal from the judgment in the second trial, unless embodied by that court in the second findings. When a claimant in the Court of Claims amends his petition by filing a new one in the place of it, and the case is heard on the amended petition only, and on appeal that court sends up only the amended petition, this court will not'issue a writ of certiorari to bring up the original petition.

ORIGINAL MOTION IN A CASE ON APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This was a motion for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Claims. The motion set forth the following facts: This cause was originally commenced in the Court of Claims by three petitions. In one, numbered. 12,515, judgment was given against the company. On appeal this court reversed that judgment. 104 U. S. 662. The three casas were then consolidated in the Court of Claims and an amended petition filed as a substitute for the previous petitions. The original petition in 12,515 set forth as exhibit B a certain letter to the Postmaster-General; and the findings of fact found that letter by referring to the petition. The letter was not attached as an exhibit to, or contained in the amended petition, and was not found as a fact by the Court of Claims. This motion set forth the importance of the letter to the issues in this case, and prayed as follows: “ That the said findings of fact in No. 12,515, and, particnlarly, the said letter of September 1, 1876, be ordered to be made and considered a part of the record on this, appeal; and to that end, if necessary, prays, under Pule 14 of this court, that a writ of certiorari issue to the Court of Claims requiring it to transmit to this court the record and the said findings of fact in No. 12,515, and the said letter of September 1, 1876, to which end it prays, under the 30th rule of this court, that the appellant’s motion, heretofore filed at this term for a further finding of facts by the Court of Claims, and the order'of this court entered thereon, may be reheard, if such rehearing shall be necessary, in order to get said letter of September 1, 1876, before this court as part of the record on this appeal.”