UNITED STATES v. PATTERSON

No. 951.

150 U.S. 65 (1893)

UNITED STATES v. PATTERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided October 30, 1893.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Dodge and Mr. Charles C. Binney for appellants.

Mr. William W. Dudley, Mr. Louis T. Michener, Mr. Richard R. McMahon, and Mr. George A. King for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The single question presented by this record is whether the services described by the finding of the Court of Claims come within this clause of section 847 of the Revised Statutes: "For hearing and deciding on criminal charges, five dollars a day for the time necessarily employed." No opinion was filed by the Court of Claims, but the reasoning by which the majority of that court reached...

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