Farden v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following- facts were found by tbe court: I. On tbe 23d day of September, 1873, tbe claimant was deputy collector of Francis Widner, then collector of internal revenue for tbe second district of Alabama, when said Widner was suspended from office .by K. B. Cobb, a supervisor of internal revenue, for fraud, and bis action reported to tbe Commissioner. II.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: Tbe following- facts were found by tbe court: I. On tbe 23d day of September, 1873, tbe claimant was deputy collector of Francis Widner, then collector of internal revenue for tbe second district of Alabama, when said Widner was suspended from office .by K. B. Cobb, a supervisor of internal revenue, for fraud, and bis action reported to tbe Commissioner. II. Tbe Commissioner thereupon sent tbe following telegram to J. Lotz, a revenue agent, and tbe order therein contained was immediately complied with: “Washing-ton, September 23,1873. “ J.…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:
The claimant was a deputy collector of internal revenue for tbe second district of Alabama, and as such acted as collector of said district from tbe 23d of September to tbe 9th of December,. 1873, inclusive, and now seeks to recover tbe compensation allowed by law and tbe order of tbe Secretary of tbe Treasury to tbe latter office, by virtue of tbe Acts of 1869, chapter 57, § 1 (15 Stat. L., 282), and 1870, chapter 187 (16 Stat. L., 179),now Revised Statutes, § 3150, where, in tbe revision, tbe provision stands thus: “Any deputy collector who…
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