Price v. Forrest

The ultimate question in this case is whether the plaintiffs in error, as heirs of. Rodman M. Price, are entitled to receive from the United States the amount standing to the credit of the deceased on .the books of the Treasury, and which represents the balance of a sum found in his lifetime under the authority of a special act of Congress to be due him upon an adjustment of his accounts as a-purser in the Navy.

The facts out of which arise the questions of law discussed by counsel are as follows:

In the year 1848 the decedent was assigned to duty on the ■ Pacific Coast in California as purser…