Plummer v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: The single question in this case turns upon the proper construction to be given to the act August 5, 1882, which will be found quoted in extenso in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The material allegations of the petition are: That the claimant, having been a duly appointed clerk in the Department of *518Justice on and previously to March 31, 1883, was on that day informed by the Attorney-General that there was no appropriation from which to pay him for further services in the capacity of clerk.
That thereupon the Attorney-General in person requested him, as an expert accountant, which he then and there was, to render services as such expert accountant in the matter of accounts for detecting and punishing violations of…
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- Whitaker v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1892