Barber v. Vinson

CLARK, Associate Justice.

The appellant here, plaintiff below, sought an injunction and an accounting in the District Court. His complaint was directed toward preventing the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer of the United States from sending, and William A. Parker, one of the appellees, from requesting or receiving checks in settlement of a claim award being paid under the provisions of the Mexican Claims Act of 1942.1

Appellant, an attorney, was a member of a law firm employed by appellee Parker in 1924 for the purpose of prosecuting claims-before the General Claims Commission. In…