State v. Brown

Defendant, Brown, had á contract with the United States government for carrying the mail between Marengo and Belle Plaine. He sublet this contract ■to one Fields, and Fields assigned his right therein to one Henry. As the government did not recognize these assignments, it sent its warrants for each quarter’s work to Brown, and he either collected the money thereon and paid it over to Henry, or indorsed the warrants and delivered them to Henry shortly after he received them. Defendant turned over all the warrants or the money received thereon save the last, which covered a fractional quarter,…