Johnson v. United States

This suit was brought by the plaintiff, who was clerk of the United States Circuit and District Courts for the Southern District of Georgia, for fees and emoluments claimed to have been earned by him in the Circuit Court prior to January 1, 1912, and in the District Court to June 3.0, 1912, aggregating the sum of $1,151.11, which were disallowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department. Appeal thereon was taken to the Comptroller of the Treasury, who sustained the action of the auditor. Hence this suit.

The court decides that items 1 (a) and 1 (b) of the petition and set out in Finding III…