United States v. Barber
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was a consolidation of three actions to recover for services as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Alabama. ■ The services are admitted to have been rendered, and the accounts therefor approved by the proper eourt under the act of February 25, 1875, 18 Stat. 333. The United States interposed .a demurrer to the petition, upon the Bearing of which judgment was…
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. This was a consolidation of three actions to recover for services as commissioner of the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Alabama. ■ The services are admitted to have been rendered, and the accounts therefor approved by the proper eourt under the act of February 25, 1875, 18 Stat. 333. The United States interposed .a demurrer to the petition, upon the Bearing of which judgment was entered in favor of the petitioner for $995.35, 35 Fed. Rep. 886, from which an appeal was taken and allowed to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case was, submitted upon briefs filed in a prior case between the same parties, United States v. Barber, ante, 164, which, however, did not discuss the points involved, and in the absence of an assignment of errors, the demurrer also being general, we are compelled to look to the disallowances by the first comptroller, and to the opinion of the court, to ascertain the questions raised upon the hearing in the court below. The objections to the accounts appear to be as follows:
1. To all charges in excess of three folios for drawing complaints. While it is true that a complaint will not…
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