The United States, in Error v. Walter Jones, Administrator of Benjamin G. Orr

This case is brought into this court by a writ of error to the circuit court for the District of Columbia.

The action was commenced against B. G. Orr, in his life time, to recover from him a sum of money which remained in his hands as a balance of moneys that had been advanced to him on an army contract. Issue being joined, the causé was-submitted to a jury; and the exceptions taken by the plaintiffs, to the ruling of the court on the trial, present the points for consideration.

“ The attorney for the United States produced and read to the jury the contract or articles of agreement between…