United States v. Kelly
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Oregon. This was a suit by Penumbra Kelly against the United States to recover for fees and disbursements as United States marshal, which were disallowed by the treasury department. From a judg mend for plaintiff, defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
This suit was commenced in the court below on the 29th day of January, 1892, by virtue of the act of congress of March 3,1887 (24 Stat. 505), to recover the sum of $4,616.15, alleged to be due the then plaintiff, defendant in error here, for services rendered the United States as marshal for the district of Oregon, and which amount had been disallowed by (lie first comprrolier of the currency, and stricken from the accounts of the defendant in error, rendered by him to the treasury department. It seems from what little of the printed transcript is jiroperly before-the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Chase v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
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