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Show CLAIMS COURT IS BUSY place! Government Gets Half Mil-! lion Judgment in One of i Its Cases WASHINGTON, July 11. The court of claims has adojurned for its sum mer recess after disposing of an unusual unu-sual amount of Important business The amount sued for In cases disposed Of since the court convened in the fall J was about $26,000,000 and the actual: amount Involved much larger as many1 test cases were disposed of upon the! result of which depended large num- bers of similar cases. This was par- tlcularl- tru of cases arising out of tho water war, a great number of which were passed upon. The government wm successful in securing ihe dismissal of a consider-j nblo number of actions and, In some, cases. In obtaining Judgment for large amounts, notably In the ease of tho Oulf Refining eompany in which the, government obtained a Judgment for, $ 199 565. and which was a suit brouph fo recoor $8,763,000 for taking oi a Cleet of tankers and ihe disruption of the claimants business, the govern-! ment setting up a counterclaim fori moneys collected for it by the claim ant The government also won the1 suit brought by the Electric Boat com-' pan, which had it proved successful muuiii mhnh earned juugxueni against the government running. It (9 estimated, into billions, the plaintiff's claim beinc $800 for every' one of tho vast number of torpedops embodying Its device, which were used during the war. The amount of war claims which, will ultimately come into the court of claims has been estimated bv fhe attorney at-torney general at between two and j three billions more than $350,000.0001 h.-n ins; already been filed In spite of this tremendous accession of business, the court has so cleared its docket that not only pending sutii; but actions ac-tions bused upon these war claims are receiving Immediate attention and all cases are disposed of as rapidly a thoy are prepared and presented by counsel. |