Ware v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to reverse a judgment of that court affirming the judgment of the District Court in an action of debt instituted by the United States on the official bond of one Ware, as deputy postmaster at Kensing-ton, in the county of Philadelphia, for $8000. The declaration alleged that there was due to the United States from the said postmaster, according to his quarterly accounts of receipts and…
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to reverse a judgment of that court affirming the judgment of the District Court in an action of debt instituted by the United States on the official bond of one Ware, as deputy postmaster at Kensing-ton, in the county of Philadelphia, for $8000. The declaration alleged that there was due to the United States from the said postmaster, according to his quarterly accounts of receipts and expenditures for the last quarter of the year 1861 and the first quarter of the year 1862, a balance of $3380.43. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clippoku
Deputy postmasters, where the commissions allowed to the office amount to or exceed one thousand dollars, are ap-. pointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and hold their offices for the term of four years, unless sooner removed bj^ the President. *
Principal defendant was, on the sixteenth day of July, 1861, duly appointed in that manner deputy postmaster at Kensington, in the County of Philadelphia; and the record shows that he was in the performance of the duties of that office on the thirteenth day of March, 1862, when the same was decided to be…
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