Fisher v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tke case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was chief justice of Wyoming Territory from February 14, 1876, to November 26, 1879. II. Up to and including June 30,1877, he was paid his salary, at the rate of $3,000 a year. III.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters’ statement of tke case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was chief justice of Wyoming Territory from February 14, 1876, to November 26, 1879. II. Up to and including June 30,1877, he was paid his salary, at the rate of $3,000 a year. III. From the 30th of June, 1877, to and including November 26, 1879, he was paid, and received without protest, compensation as such chief justice, at the rate of $2,600 a year. Upon the foregoing findings of fact, the court decided as a conclusion of law, pro forma, in order that the…
1Opinion of the CourtKici-iardson, J.
The claimant was chief justice of the Territory of "Wyoming from February 14, 1876, to November 26,1879.
By Be vised Statutes, section 1879, the annual salary of the .chief justice and associate justices of all the Territories was fixed at $3,000 each.
The claimant was paid his salary at the rate of $3,000 a year up to and including June 30, 1877, the end of the fiscal year.
The Act March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. L., 294), chap. 102, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, andjudicial expenses of the government for the year ending June 30, 1878, provided:
“ That the following sums be, and…
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