New York Central v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters statement of the case: Tbe following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the months of March, April, and May, 1873, John M. Bailey, United States collector of internal revenue, exacted and collected from the claimant several sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to $550,173.60, and paid the same into the Treasury of the United States. II.
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The Reporters statement of the case: Tbe following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. In the months of March, April, and May, 1873, John M. Bailey, United States collector of internal revenue, exacted and collected from the claimant several sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to $550,173.60, and paid the same into the Treasury of the United States. II. On the 23d May, 1873, an action was commenced in the Supreme Court of the State of Hew York by the claimant against Bailey, for the purpose of collecting the money so exacted and collected, and on the 2d June, 1873, on…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This is an action brought upon a judgment which was recovered by the claimant against an internal-revenue collector of the United States, and which was rendered under the mandate of the Supreme Court. The accounting officers of the Treasury, while they have'allowed and paid to the claimant the greater part of the judgment, have withheld, in zealous defense of the Government, $107,978.28, with subsequently accrued interest; and.it is for this' money so withheld that the action is brought.
*28The important and significant amounts in this controversy are as follows:
The arnouut levied and paid into…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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