Eber Bros. Wine & Liquor Corporation v. The United States

DAVIS, Judge.

This is a suit on a private bill passed by both Houses which, the plaintiff says, became law when the President failed to veto it within the time prescribed by the Constitution. The defense is that the President validly returned the bill without his approval within the proper time, and that the Congress did not repass the measure. It is agreed that if the bill became law plaintiff is entitled to recover, otherwise not. The only issue is whether the President vetoed and returned the bill “within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it” was “presented to him.”

Having been refused (on…