United States v. Garter

This case, .like the two preceding, is one brought by a district attorney to recover for services rendered in a Court of Appeals. There is this difference, however, between them. The plaintiff in the court- below was district attorney for the Northern District of California. The Court of Appeals was held at San Francisco, within the limits of that district, though the case in which he was employed and in which he rendered the services was one coming to that court from the District Court of Alaska.

In a geographical sense the services were rendered in a government case pending in the district…