PRICE v. FORREST

No. 105.

173 U.S. 410 (1899)

PRICE v. FORREST.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 6, 1899.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John C. Fay and Mr. Flavel McGhee for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Cortlandt Parker and Mr. R. Wayne Parker for defendants in error. Mr. Frank W. Hackett was on their brief.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The ultimate question in this case is whether the plaintiffs in error, as heirs of Rodman M. Price, are entitled to receive from the United States the amount standing to the credit of the deceased on the books of the Treasury, and which represents the balance of a sum found in his lifetime under the authority of a special act of Congress to be due him upon an adjustment of his accounts as a purser in the Navy...

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