
    WILLIAM YERKE v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [Not reported in C. Cls. R.;
    173 U. S. R., 439.]
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.
    
    The court below dismisses the claimant’s petition for want of jurisdiction, on the ground that the claimant was not a citizen of the United States at the time the depredation was committed, although he had declared his intention to become one.
   The decision of the court below is affirmed on the same grounds.

Mr. Justice McKenna delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 13,1899.  