United States v. Buford
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of Kentucky. The United States instituted an action, of assumpsit in the circuit court of Kentucky, to recover the sum of ten thousand dollars from the defendant, which they alleged to have been received by him to their use. The claim of the. United States arose under the following circumstances.
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ERROR to the circuit court of Kentucky. The United States instituted an action, of assumpsit in the circuit court of Kentucky, to recover the sum of ten thousand dollars from the defendant, which they alleged to have been received by him to their use. The claim of the. United States arose under the following circumstances. On the 21st December 1812, at Lexington, Kentucky, James Morrison, a deputy quarter master general, of the army of the United States paid to the defendant in error, Thomas Buford, then a deputy commissary of the United States, the sum of ten thousand dollars, and took from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
This suit was brought by writ of error from the circuit court of Kentucky, to reverse a judgment obtained in that court against a claim prosecuted by the United States. The following errors are assigned by the attorney'general:
1. That the judgment of the circuit court on the defendant’s demurrer to the surrejoinder of the plaintiffs, growing out of the sixth, seventh and eighth pleas of the defendant, ought to have been .for the plaintiffs and not for the defendant.
2. .That the court-erred in not permitting the plaintiffs to withdraw their replication to the defendant’s several pleas of.…
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