Barrett v. Conley

This matter is before the court upon the motion of the United States, a claimant to surplus moneys, to set aside an order of this court confirming a Referee’s report in surplus proceedings, upon the ground that the Government received additional information after confirmation of the Referee’s report that the lien of the prior claimant to whom the surplus moneys have been awarded was based upon a usurious contract. The United States seeks to have certain issues of law and fact referred back to the Referee for determination. In the surplus money proceedings, the Referee made a report to the…