United States v. Patterson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OE .CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims, in favor of the claimant and against tlie United States.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OE .CLAIMS. This was an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims, in favor of the claimant and against tlie United States. The claimant was a commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of North Carolina, and as such commissioner performed certain services for the defendants, consisting, as stated in the findings, “of hearing charges made by complaining witnesses against persons charged with violations of the laws of the United States, and holding examinations of such complaining witnesses, and any other witnesses produced by them…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The single question presented by this record is whether the services described by the finding of the Court of Claims come within this clause of section 847 of the Revised Statutes: “ For hearing and deciding on criminal charges, five dollars a day for the time necessarily employed.” No opinion was filed by the Court of Claims, but the reasoning by which the majority of that court reached their conclusion seems from the briefs of counsel to have been as follows : Section 847 provides, generally, for the compensation of commissioners, some services named therein being of a clerical and some of…
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