Lewis v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE CLAIMS. This suit was instituted by James. Lewis, and revived upon his death by Josephine B. Lewis, as executrix, to recover the sum of $2,000 salary claimed to be due him from the United States as surveyor general of Louisiana for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1909, and ending June 30,1910, and to recover the further sum of $2,287.80 claimed to belong to him as perquisites of this office and paid over his protest into the Treasury of the United…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE CLAIMS. This suit was instituted by James. Lewis, and revived upon his death by Josephine B. Lewis, as executrix, to recover the sum of $2,000 salary claimed to be due him from the United States as surveyor general of Louisiana for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1909, and ending June 30,1910, and to recover the further sum of $2,287.80 claimed to belong to him as perquisites of this office and paid over his protest into the Treasury of the United States between May 1, 1907, and June 30, 1909, at the direction of his superior officer, the Commissioner of the General…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Day
Section 2207 of the Revised Statutes provided for the appointment of a surveyor general for the surveying dis trict of Louisiana; § 2208 fixed his salary at the sum of $2,000 a year; § 2217 fixed the term of office at four years from the date of the commission unless the incumbent should resign, di¿ or be removed from office within that period.
The claimant insists that Lewis was entitled to the salary of the office for the year ending June 10, 1910, notwithstanding the facts found by the Court of Claims as to the discontinuance of the office, as it was not until that date that the State of…
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