Legal Opinion
Blount v. United States
United States Court of Claims
Decided April 12, 1886No. 13344PublishedCited by 2 opinions
The Reporters' statement of the case: All of the material facts of the case are set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtScofield, J.
February 1, 1861, ’the United States was indebted to the claimant’s intestate for carrying the mail between San Augustine and Marshall, in the State of Texas, in the sum of $965.43.
In the Sundry Oivil Appropriation Act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. L., 362), is the following provision :
“ That the sum of $375,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to pay the amount due to mail con*275tractors for mail service performed in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Virginia, and…
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