United States v. Carter
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION. The facts are stated in the opinion. The right of the Government to the full measure of the relief- prayed in its bill in this cause, and granted to it by the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals, depends primarily upon the sufficiency of the proof establishing the conspiracy bétween Oberlin M. Carter añd the contractors to defraud the United States as charged in the bill.
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APPEALS PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION. The facts are stated in the opinion. The right of the Government to the full measure of the relief- prayed in its bill in this cause, and granted to it by the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals, depends primarily upon the sufficiency of the proof establishing the conspiracy bétween Oberlin M. Carter añd the contractors to defraud the United States as charged in the bill. The proof submitted established that in devising projects of improvement, drafting specifications, advertising, letting…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Lurton
This is a bill which seeks to compel the defendant, Oberlin M. Carter, late a captain in the army of the United States, to account for illicit gains, gratuities and profits received by him through collusion with contractors for river, and harbor improvements in the Savannah, Georgia, improvement district, and to follow such illicit profits into securities and other property held for him by other defendants to the suit.
In substance, the bill charges that under an appropriation made by Congress for the improvement of the harbor of Savannah certain contracts were entered into with John F. Gaynor…
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