Kruszewski v. United States

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the Government (defendant) in an action by plaintiff, an employee of the United States Treasury Department, to recover in the amount of $680.68. The Government, on January 22, 1944, by its General Accounting Office certified that plaintiff had been overpaid $700.90, and that after crediting him with $20.22 there was due the United States the sum of $680.68. This money, after demand by the Government, the plaintiff refused to repay. The Government thereupon proceeded to accomplish its collection by a set-off of the amount against…