Jayne v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'1 statement of the ease: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. In the month of June, 1869, B. G-. Jayne, Lewis J. Kirk, John KaTiski, and E. F. Burton jointly informed the collector of customs at New York, in writing, that T. H. Vetterlein & Sons had defrauded the revenue by collusion with the weigh-ers, making short return of weights of merchandise imported by them, and jointly claimed the informers’ share allowed by law of any fines,…
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The Reporters'1 statement of the ease: The following are the facts as found by the court: I. In the month of June, 1869, B. G-. Jayne, Lewis J. Kirk, John KaTiski, and E. F. Burton jointly informed the collector of customs at New York, in writing, that T. H. Vetterlein & Sons had defrauded the revenue by collusion with the weigh-ers, making short return of weights of merchandise imported by them, and jointly claimed the informers’ share allowed by law of any fines, penalties, or forfeitures resulting from such -information, and that- their said joint claim as informers was subsequently duly…
1Opinion of the CourtWeldon, J.
This proceeding» involves a dispute betwen B. G-. Jayne, on one side, John Kanski, Edward F. Furton, and Jane Kirk, ad-ministratrix of the estate of Lewis J. Kirk, deceased, on the other, as to who are the informers in the case of T. H. Yetter-lein & Sons, commenced in the District Court of the United States for the southern district of New York. The, matter of the controversy comes to this court by a reference of the Secretary of the Treasury under the provisions of the Bowman Act.
In the year 1869, on the 3d of June, Jayne was appointed special agent of the Treasury Department and commenced…
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