United States v. Stewart

NORCROSS, District Judge.

This is a suit by plaintiff to recover a judgment against defendant in the sum of *201nine hundred seventy-eight dollars and fifty cents ($978.50) with accrued interest.

The complaint alleges that “Defendant owes the Plaintiff” the amount stated “for money paid * * * to defendant by mistake” by an Assistant Postmaster at Tonopah, Nevada, on January 3, 1936, under 'the following circumstances:

“(a) That on February 14, 1934, and prior thereto, one Ida M. Doan was the owner of a postal savings account and deposit * * *.” The first deposit made and certificate issued is of…