Coleman v. United States

BARR, District Judge.

In this case the plaintiff alleges that:

“On the - day of February, 1888, he was employed as a laborer on a dredge boat on the Louisville & Portland Canal, in the state of Kentucky, for the United States, at a salary of ,$40 per month, and continued to discharge the duties of such position as laborer on said dredge boat at said place and at said salary until the 3d day of September, 1890, when he was relieved from duty on said canal, and he has not done any work for the United States since that time. That, during the time above referred to, he discharged - the duties of…