Kulb v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The following are the facts found by the court: I. Burr S. Craft, a resident of Princess Anne County, in Virginia, purchased of a banking firm, in New York, for value received, and in the regular course of business, a United States gold certificate, issued under tbe Act of Congress of Mivrch 3, 1863, § 5 (12 Stat. at L., 711), of which the following is a copy (omitting the ornamentation): No. 25378. It'is hereby certified that $5,000 have been deposited with the assistant…
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The following are the facts found by the court: I. Burr S. Craft, a resident of Princess Anne County, in Virginia, purchased of a banking firm, in New York, for value received, and in the regular course of business, a United States gold certificate, issued under tbe Act of Congress of Mivrch 3, 1863, § 5 (12 Stat. at L., 711), of which the following is a copy (omitting the ornamentation): No. 25378. It'is hereby certified that $5,000 have been deposited with the assistant treasurer of the United States in New York, payable in gold, at his office, to the order of E. H. Birdsall, New York.…
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2Opinion of the Court · RichardsonRichardson, J.
This suit is brought to recover the amount of a gold certificate issued by the defendants, through the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, for $5,000, payable to the order of E. H. Birdsall, a subordinate of the assistant treasurer, and by him indorsed, bearing date November 14, 1866.
genuineness of the certificate is not controverted. The defendants refuse and resist payment" to the claimant because the ownership of the certificate having been claimed by another person, one Burr S. Craft, Congress passed an act directing-payment to be made to him, upon his giving a…
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