United States ex rel. Lichter v. Henke Const. Co.

REEVES, District Judge.

The question for decision in this case is whether the plaintiffs are entitled to interest on a judgment recovered by them in this court, 67 F.Supp. 123, and which judgment upon their appeal was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals, 8 Cir., 157 F.2d 13.

Neither the judgment of this court nor the mandate of the Court of Appeals referred to the subject of interest. The plaintiffs recovered their judgment on January 9, 1945, in the total sum of $24,960.54. This amount was deemed inadequate by them and they prosecuted an appeal. When the mandate of the appellate court…