Harper v. United States

Scofield, J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court:

Tbe claimant is now, and bas been since 1879, commissioner of the Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe southern district of Cbio.

In rendering bis accounts for tbe years 1883, 1884, and 1885, as sucb commissioner, be charged, among other fees, $5 a day for a certain number of days in bearing and deciding on criminal charges. When tbe accounts were presented for payment at tbe Treasury Department the charge for twenty-nine days was rejected by tbe accounting officers, because it appeared that upon those days no witnesses were beard and no…