Charles v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action the claimant brought by the voluntary filing of his petition. No controversy arose on his demand, which was for the transportation of certain Indian supplies; but the defendants set up a counter-claim in regard to which the following facts were found: Some time in 1873 or 1874 the claimant presented to the defendants, through the proper disbursing and accounting officers, the following voucher, issued by John E. Tappan, then…
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: This action the claimant brought by the voluntary filing of his petition. No controversy arose on his demand, which was for the transportation of certain Indian supplies; but the defendants set up a counter-claim in regard to which the following facts were found: Some time in 1873 or 1874 the claimant presented to the defendants, through the proper disbursing and accounting officers, the following voucher, issued by John E. Tappan, then a United States Indian agent: The United States to John H. Charles, Dr. Date: Fort Berthold, D. T., September 29, 1873.…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
That the claimant has a just demand against the defendants for the sum of $824.98, for transportation, as set out in his petition and in the findings of fact, has not been a matter of controversy.
The defendants have filed a counter-claim to recover back $14,024.39 alleged to have been paid to the claimant upon a voucher falsely and fraudulently purporting that such amount at the time of its payment was due and payable from the United States to him for certain subsistence stores stated therein to have been purchased by the United States of him, and by him delivered to the defendants’ officers…
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