United States v. Price
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. The facts which make the case' are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice
Waite delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a suit brought to recover back a sum of money collected by Bern Price from the United States on a claim “for property and supplies taken .' . . for the use of the armies of the United States during the war of the rebellion,” allowed by the Commissioners of Claims under the act of March 3,. 1871, T6 Stat. 524, ch. 116, § 2, on the ground that “said sum of money was paid to defendant under act of Congress, approved March 3, 1875, as heir and legatee of his deceased father’s estate, and in mistake that the said sum wa.s due him as…
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