White v. United States

. Booth, GMef Justice,

delivered the opinion:

Subdivision 3 of section 145 of the Judicial Code confers jurisdiction upon this court to consider claims of

“ * * * any paymaster, quartermaster, commissary of subsistence, or other disbursing officer, of the United States, or of his administrators or executors, for relief from responsibility on account of loss by capture or otherwise, while in the line of his duty, of Government funds, vouchers, records, or papers in his charge, and for which such officer was and is held responsible.”

Section 147 of the Judicial Code provides the remedy as follows:

“W…