United States v. Dickson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN'error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. Samuel W. Dickson, the defendant, was appointed by the President of the United States, Receiver of Public Money for the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi, and entered on the duties ofhis office on the 22d November, 1833, and retained the office, performing the duties thereof until the 26th July, 1836¿ having on that day resigned the same.
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IN'error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. Samuel W. Dickson, the defendant, was appointed by the President of the United States, Receiver of Public Money for the Choctaw district, in the state of Mississippi, and entered on the duties ofhis office on the 22d November, 1833, and retained the office, performing the duties thereof until the 26th July, 1836¿ having on that day resigned the same. The United.States claimed a large balance as due to them, and-the defendant paid, in Natchez, the whole sum alleged to be due by him, with the exception…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is a case of a writ of error to the Circuit Court, for the Southern District of Mississippi.
The defendant in error, Samuel W. Dickson, was duly appointed a Receiver of Public Moneys, for the Choctaw district, in Mississippi, and entered upon the duties of his office, on the 22d of November, 1S33. He continued to hold the office until the 26th of July, 1836, when he resigned it. In May, 1839, a suit was instituted upon his official bond, against him and his sureties, to recover certain sums of public moneys received by- him, and not paid over. At the trial of the cause, Dickson insisted…
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