O'Leary v. United States

*238The court decided that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover, in an opinion

as follows:

This is a suit brought by John F. L. O’Leary, plaintiff, a ■shorthand reporter, to recover the sum of $169.60 alleged to have been due him for reporting hearings before a Referee in Bankruptcy at Racine, Wisconsin, and furnishing a ■copy of the transcript thereof to the Referee in Bankruptcy .and to an Assistant United States Attorney.

The record shows that the plaintiff did perform work as .•a reporter as alleged in his petition on the hearing of a case in bankruptcy before a Referee. The issue in the…