Maynard v. Johnson

Opinion upon re-hearing, by

Brosnan, J., full Bench concurring.

A re-hearing was granted in this case, because the Court was not entirely satisfied as to the correctness of its former decision. We hoped that on a re-argument some more convincing reasons might be presented, calculated either to confirm the opinion heretofore expressed, or enable us to reach some other satisfactory conclusion.

The only question involved is one of statutory construction, arising out of the Act of Congress entitled “ An Act to provide Internal Revenue to support the-Government to pay interest on the Public Debt,”…