Landram v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was the collector of internal revenue of the eighth district of Kentucky from May 1,1873, to June 30,1876. II. On the 20th May, 1873,' on the claimant’s application, the Commissioner of Internal .Revenue designated William Herndon as the claimant’s assistant in the survey of distilleries, at a compensation of $5 a day when actually employed.
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The Reporters' statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was the collector of internal revenue of the eighth district of Kentucky from May 1,1873, to June 30,1876. II. On the 20th May, 1873,' on the claimant’s application, the Commissioner of Internal .Revenue designated William Herndon as the claimant’s assistant in the survey of distilleries, at a compensation of $5 a day when actually employed. Hern-don rendered service as such assistant for 198 days between August 1, 1873, and March 31, 1875, and was paid therefor by the United…
1Opinion of the CourtDayis, J.
In Herndon’s Case (15 C. Cls. R., 446), decided at the last term, it appeared that Landram, tlie present claimant, an internal-revenue collector, being authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a deputy at $1,200 a year, appointed Herndon a deputy at that salary; that Herndon was at the same-time acting as distillery surveyor with a per diem pay of $5 while employed, and expenses; and that the Comptroller had refused to allow double pay to Herndon, and had, in. settling Landram’s accounts, deducted from the allowance of $1,200 the sums paid Herndon as distillery surveyor. In that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Herndon v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1879