Andrews v. United States
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At law. Writ of error from the judgment of the district court, of Massachusetts district. The original suit was debt brought upon the official bond of Andrews, formerly collector of the port and district of Ipswich. The United States claimed a balance due for moneys received by the defendant; and the pleadings put the question, whether any such balance was due, directly to the jury.
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At law. Writ of error from the judgment of the district court, of Massachusetts district. The original suit was debt brought upon the official bond of Andrews, formerly collector of the port and district of Ipswich. The United States claimed a balance due for moneys received by the defendant; and the pleadings put the question, whether any such balance was due, directly to the jury. There was, also, a claim of set-off, by the defendant, for legal and equitable claims, asserted to be due to him; all of which were rejected at the trial, by the ruling of the district judge, to whose decisions on…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This cause having-been submitted to the court without argument, I am not sure, that I fully comprehend all the grounds intended to be relied upon by-counsel, either in objection to, or in support of, the various claims stated in the bill of exceptions. If any of these claims, although not strictly of a legal nature, are yet ex aequo et bono due to the defendant for extra *906services rendered, or moneys expended on. account of, and for the benefit of the United States, it is very clear, that the defendant is entitled to an allowance and compensation therefor, upon the…
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