Wilson v. Shaw
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OE COLUMBIA. In a general way it may be said that this is a suit brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellant, alleging himself to be a citizen of Illinois and the owner of property subject to taxation by the United States, to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from paying out money in the purchase of property for the construction of a canal at Panama, from borrowing money on the credit of the…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OE APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OE COLUMBIA. In a general way it may be said that this is a suit brought in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the appellant, alleging himself to be a citizen of Illinois and the owner of property subject to taxation by the United States, to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from paying out money in the purchase of property for the construction of a canal at Panama, from borrowing money on the credit of the United States, from issuing bonds or making any payments under the act of Congress, June 28, 1902, 32 Stat. 481,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brewer
If the bill was only to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury from paying the specific sums named therein, to wit, $40,000,000, to the Panama Canal Company, and $10,000,000 to the Republic of Panama, it would be sufficient to- note the fact, of which we may take judicial notice, that those payments have been made and that whether they were rightfully made or not is, so far as this suit is concerned, a moot question. Cheong Ah Moy v. United States, 113 U. S. 216; Mills v. Green, 159 U. S. 651; American Book Company v. Kansas, 193 U. S. 49; Jones v. Montague, 194 U. S. 147.
But the bill goes…
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