Boggs v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: ‘ I. The claimant entered the regular United States naval service September 24, 1869, after over five years’ previous service as paymaster’s clerk, and’has since then served continuously in the Pay Corps of the Navy until the present time.
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The Reporters'1 statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: ‘ I. The claimant entered the regular United States naval service September 24, 1869, after over five years’ previous service as paymaster’s clerk, and’has since then served continuously in the Pay Corps of the Navy until the present time. He was appointed a pay inspector November 12,1899, and a pay director September 28, 1902. He was ordered to relieve Pay Inspector Wright as paymaster of the New York Navy-Yard on September 1, 1900, having previously served in that position twenty-one…
1Opinion of the CourtHowRT, Judge
This is a suit by a pay director in the navy for relief under "Revised Statutes, sections 1059, 1062, from responsibility for the loss of $10,000 of government funds for which the officer was responsible and for which sum plaintiff has been charged in his official accounts by the accounting officers of the Treasury. The shortage occurred while the plaintiff was on duty as paymaster of the New York Navy-Yard through the defalcation of one Thomas Costelloe, who was at that time chief clerk and cashier in the employ of the paymaster.
The statutes under which the relief is sought give the court…
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