Barksdale v. United States

WATKINS, District Judge.

By stipulation of counsel this ease was submitted to me without a jury. There is practically no dispute as to the facts. The matter first came before me at Greenville during the April term of the court. At that time egrtain stipulated facts were admitted in the record and a limited amount of oral testimony was taken. Thereafter counsel for the government and for the plaintiff submitted written briefs. It is due to counsel to state that these briefs were unusually well prepared, stating the contentions of the parties with unusual force and clearness. Before the matter…