Southworth v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OR CLAIMS. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims. The action was commenced by John P. South worth on December 16, 1882, to recover the sum of $82,830, for services as a Circuit Court commissioner for the District of Louisiana.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OR CLAIMS. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims. The action was commenced by John P. South worth on December 16, 1882, to recover the sum of $82,830, for services as a Circuit Court commissioner for the District of Louisiana. The petition alleged that during the year 1876, 8283 complaints were made to him as such commissioner, charging certain persons named therein with the violation of section 5512, Kovised Statutes; that on such complaints the petitioner, as commissioner, duly issued warrants against the persons named, and delivered them to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
The magnitude of this claim is startling. If the fact be, as stated in the report of the Comptroller, attached as an exhibit to the petition, that these complaints were filed and warrants issued during the twelve days from October• 26 to November ■G, or at tire rate of about seven hundred a day, as only, one out of six of the persons named was ever found and arrested, it is calculated to arouse a suspicion that these proceedings were not had in the due and orderly administration of criminal law, and with a view to the arrest and punishment of offenders, but rather- for the sake of rolling up…
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