Hoyt v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. " The United States .brought an action of assumpsit in the court below against the plaintiff in error. The declaration contained four counts; viz. for money lent and advanced ; for .money laid out and expended; for money had and received; and upon án account stated. The general issue was pleaded and joined.
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This was a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. " The United States .brought an action of assumpsit in the court below against the plaintiff in error. The declaration contained four counts; viz. for money lent and advanced ; for .money laid out and expended; for money had and received; and upon án account stated. The general issue was pleaded and joined. The cause came on for" trial at the April, term, 1343, before Mr. Justice Thompson and "Judgé Betts, when' a .verdict was found for "the United States, and a judgment en- - -feed upon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is a writ of error to the Circuit Court held in and for the Southern District of New York, in a suit brought by the United States against the late collector of the port of New York, to recover a balance claimed in the settlement of his accounts.
The defendant had been collector from the 29th of March, 1838, to the 2d of March, 1841, and on a final adjustment of his accounts, at the close of his official term, a balance against him was found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury of $ 216,048.07.
The counsel for the plaintiff produced on the trial four Treasury transcripts…
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