United States v. Dumas
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action brought by the United States to recover from Anna M. Dumas, and the sureties on .hfir official bond, money alleged to have been illegally retained by her while postmaster at Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. This was an action brought by the United States to recover from Anna M. Dumas, and the sureties on .hfir official bond, money alleged to have been illegally retained by her while postmaster at Covington, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. It appears-from the record that Anna M. Dumas was postmaster at the above-named place from January 1, 1881, to August 3, 1885, and that on October 1, 1883, a bond, in lieu of a former one, was executed. This bond was in the usual form, and was given to insure the faithful…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
It is insisted for the government that the order of the Postmaster General and the certified transcript of .the accounts, which state the amount of the liability of Anna M. Dumas at $709.89, are final and conclusive. If this proposition is correct, and the order and the transcript constitute conclusive rather than prima facie evidence of the balance due the United States, then the instruction given was erroneous, and that requested should have been given.
The order of the Postmaster General was made, as it recites, in the exercise of the discretion conferred by the first section of the act of…
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