Libby v. United States

HOWELL, Judge.

This suit is brought under the special provisions of Sections 145 and 147 of the Judicial Code 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 250, 253 [now §§ 1496, 2512] conferring jurisdiction on this Court to grant relief from liability to Disbursing Officers of the United States, which provide as follows:

“Section 145. Jurisdiction. The Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction t.o hear and determine the following-matters:

“(3) Disbursing officers. The claim of any paymaster, quartermaster, commissary of subsistence, or other disbursing officer of the United States, or of his administrators or executors, for…