Butler v. White
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
Those were hills in equity filed against A. B. White, collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia, and others, by William Butler, H. G. Berry, and J. G. Ruckman, respectively, to enjoin the defendants from removing them from their positions as gauger and storekeeper, in a distillery, or from transferring them to other and subordinate positions.
1Opinion of the Court
JACKSON, District Judge.
These causes are now heard upon the bills of plaintiff's and the demurrers and answers of defendants, which, by stipulation of counsel, are hoard together. The object and purpose of the hills are to restrain the defendants from removing the plaintiffs in ibis action from their present positions as gauger and storekeeper, respectively, in the Hannis Distillery, or transferring them to any other and subordinate positions in the same distillery. These officers were commissioned by the government, and assigned to duty, and were in the active discharge of the functions of…
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