United Status v. Du Perow

KIDDITS, District Judge.

In this case the government sues the defendant at law upon a cause of action alleging that the defendant is indebted to the United States in the sum of $1,285.78, with interest from June 30, 1902, being the money value of quartermaster’s supplies, property of the United States, .which had come into the possession of the defendant as captain of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, War with Spain, and for which the defendant has failed to account; that sum being charged to him on certificate of the Quartermaster General of the United States Army, and duly certified by said…