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- Title: Morgan v. United States
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1871
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 54 KB
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Messrs. N. Chipman, Carlisle, and McPherson, for the claimants: The injury was caused by a war risk; the imminent danger of the country at that moment and the urgent necessity of sending troops forward to New Orleans without delay. The quartermaster had 'a full knowledge of the danger of crossing the bar.' He knew he was going into the jaws of destruction; but 'the exigencies of service'–those same exigencies which compel men to walk up to the cannon's mouth–compelled him to give the desperate order. The order was obeyed and the catastrophe followed. What was all this but the risks of war, 'war risks?' Such risks the United States were to bear.