Macauley v. United States

The claimant brings his action in his own name and to his own use, as assignee of a Treasury warrant drawn in favor of one William Bailly. The defendants move for an order commanding the claimant and his assignor each to appear and be examined as witnesses. The claimant concedes the right of the court to make such an order so far as he himself is concerned, but contends that he is not responsible for and cannot be required to produce the assignor of a claim who has no remaining or resulting interest in it so far as the record discloses.

The statute upon which this motion rests (Rev. Stat., §…