Lovering v. United States

LOWELL, District Judge.

This is a petition for the allowance of the charges of a former marshal of the United States for this district, which charges were disallowed by the comptroller. The matter could be disposed of summarily were it not that chapter 359, Acts 1887, § 7 (24 Stat. 505), makes it “the duty of the court to give a written opinion to be filed in the cause.” The items in controversy are conveniently grouped under the following heads:

1. Charges for the attendance of a deputy before the United States commissioner, where the same person was paid the same day for attendance as bailiff…