Clark v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the Court 1
102 U.S. 322
102 U.S. 322
26 L.Ed. 181
CLARK
v.
UNITED STATES.
October Term, 1880
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APPEAL from the Court of Claims.
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This is a suit by James S. Clark and Edward Fulton, partners under the name and style of J. S. Clark & Co., to recover from the United States the sum of $10,000 alleged to have been extorted from the petitioners in December, 1864, by Col. Harai Robinson, then acting provost-marshal-general for the Department of the Gulf.
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The court below found the following facts:—— I. On the 26th of October, 1864, the Secretary of the Treasury signed and delivered to the claimants the paper of that…
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