The United States, in Error v. Walter Jones, Administrator De Bonis Non of Benjamin G. Orr

This suit was originally brought by the plaintiffs, against Benjamin G. Orr, who has since deceased, in the circuit court of the United States for the District of Columbia, to recover the balance of a treasury settlement, charged against him on the books of the treasury department. At the trial, several excep lions were taken to the instruction of the court to the jury, and those exceptions are brought before this court, for their decision, by a writ of error.

On the 15th of January 1817, Orr made a contract with the government, to supply the troops of the United States with rations, &c.…