United States v. City of Brookhaven

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

The United States sued the City of Brookhaven, Mississippi, and Roland B. Wall, who was its mayor in 1935 and 1936, to recover $40,272, with interest, alleged to have been paid out and disbursed to the City on the faith of a proposal for federal aid under the Emergency Relief Act, which proposal was on Sept. 2, 1935, made by Wall as Mayor of the City and approved by him as Local Director of Works Progress Administration, and contained the statement, known to be false, that “The Sponsor, (City of Brookhaven), proposes *444a project for the erection and completion of an…