United States v. Purdy

Sage, J.,

(orally charging jury.) The government sues to recover from Margaret Purdy and her son Robert J. Pnrdy, the sum of $2,546.86, which, as is set forth in the petition, is the amount of the pension granted or paid to Margaret Purdy on the 25th day of April, 1888, on account of the death, from injuries received in the service, of her son William T. Curdy, on the 12th of May 1862. The pension was granted under section 4707, Rev. St. U. S., which provides, in substance, that if a soldier has died of a disability contracted in service, under such circumstances'as would ha,ve entitled him to…