United States ex rel. Ray v. Porter

CAVANAH, District Judge.

This is one of the 15 suits between the same parties, presenting substantially the same questions, which have been consolidated for trial, brought by the United States against the defendant, as commissioner of finance of the state of Idaho, to recover certain moneys claimed to have been deposited as postal and forestry funds of the United States by various local postmasters and a forestry officer of the government in certain state banks, whieh were closed and in some instances voluntarily assigned by their directors to the defendant and taken over by such commissioner…