United States v. Rundlett

CURTIS, Circuit Justice.

This is an action of debt [against Harrison G. O. Rundlett] on a recognizance. The amended declaration, which is demurred to, shows that one Woodbury Gilman was complained of, before Horace Webster, one of the commissioners appointed by the circuit court of the United States for the district of New Hampshire, and therein was charged with the crime of presenting to the commissioner of pensions certain false and fraudulent papers for the purpose of obtaining an allowance of a claim for a pension, and the payment of a sum of money from the United States in satisfaction of…