Erwin v. United States

Finding of facts.

Speer, J.

This suit was brought under the act of congress of March 3, 1887, which confers upon the district court of the United States concurrent jurisdiction with the court of claims of all demands against the government not sounding in tort, in amounts not exceeding $1,000, and the same jurisdiction upon the circuit courts of demands exceeding $1,000 and not exceeding $10,000. The issues formed in these novel but salutary proceedings are triable by the court without the intervention of a jury. In the suit before the court the government was represented by the United States…