United States v. MacDaniel
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the district-of Columbia. This action was brought on the 14th of August 1829 in the circuit court by the United States, to recover from fhn-defendant the sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents, alleged to have been found due on a settlement of his accounts by the accouñting officers of the treasury . department.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the district-of Columbia. This action was brought on the 14th of August 1829 in the circuit court by the United States, to recover from fhn-defendant the sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and ninety-four cents, alleged to have been found due on a settlement of his accounts by the accouñting officers of the treasury . department. The case was tried in May 1831, and a verdict and judgment'rendered for the defendant; to réverse which Judgment,. the United States prosecuted this writ of error. Before the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M’Lean
A writ of error is prosecuted in this case, by the United States, to recover a .judgment of the circuit court for the district of Columbia.
The action was brought by the government to recover from the defendant a balance charged against him, on the books of the treasury department, amounting to the sum of nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars ninety-four cents.
In his defence, the defendant proved that he was a clerk in the navy department, upon an annual salary of fourteen hundred dollars; and that he also acted as the agent for the payment of the moneys due to the navy pensioners, the…
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