United States v. Willcox

ROSS, Circuit Judge.

The court below sustained a demurrer to-the complaint on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, and that ruling is the basis of the single assignment of error found in the record. The complaint alleges that the defendant thereto was a first lieutenant in the 6th regiment of cavalry of the United States, and as such officer “did render his account to the United States in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00)' as and for the value of a certain horse then and there claimed by said defendant to have been lost in the military…