United States v. McCoy
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This suit was commenced by the Government to recover an amount alleged to be due on a bond to secure the performance of a contract to carry mail. The defendants-were McCoy, the contractor and principal- in the bond, and his sureties. The cause was put at issue by a general denial and was tried in November, 1899. The Government prosecuted error from' a judgment of non-suit which was entered against it.
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ERROR TO THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This suit was commenced by the Government to recover an amount alleged to be due on a bond to secure the performance of a contract to carry mail. The defendants-were McCoy, the contractor and principal- in the bond, and his sureties. The cause was put at issue by a general denial and was tried in November, 1899. The Government prosecuted error from' a judgment of non-suit which was entered against it. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided that the trial court was “right in holding that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court..The assignments of errors and arguments at bar present two questions for decision. First. Were the copies of telegrams sent by the postmaster at San Francisco to the Post Office Department admissible in evidence? And, second, if they were, did the certified copy of the account of McCoy as a failing contractor from the books of the Auditor for the Post Office Department, the telegrams from the postmaster at San Francisco and the finding of the Postmaster General that McCoy was a failing contractor, make…
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