United States v. Ady
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
in Error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
Joseph W. Ady, the defendant in error, was United States district attorney for the district of Kansas from November 11, 1889, until September % 1893. He sued the United States under the provisions of the act of congress entitled “An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the government of the United States,” approved March 3, 1887 (24 Stat. 505, c. 359; 1 Supp. Rev. St. [2d Ed.] 559), to recover the reasonable value- of special services, which he claimed to have rendered in 1891 and 1893. He obtained a judgment, and the United States sued out this writ of…
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