United States v. Louisville
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the city of Louisville, based upon a petition filed in that court for the recovery of seventeen thousand and some odd dollars, alleged to be due the city from the Government on account of taxes improperly collected.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the city of Louisville, based upon a petition filed in that court for the recovery of seventeen thousand and some odd dollars, alleged to be due the city from the Government on account of taxes improperly collected. It appears that between the years 1862 and 1872 the city of Louisville, Kentucky, owned a large amount of bonds and stock of the Louisville and Nashville Kailroad Company, upon which the company paid interest and declared cash dividends, retaining, however, during most of the time…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peckham
The claim here made is that the officers of the Government committed an error in auditing and allowing the amount paid in 1891 for taxes on surplus, as thosq taxes, it is said, were not referred to in the act of 1890 and should not have been reported to Congress or ordered paid by it, and that the power to review this action (if not previously existing) was created by the act of 1893, above set forth.
We think the judgment of the Court of Claims is right. By the payment under the act of 1891 the questions involved were ended. It was not only an auditing and allowance by the proper officers of…
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