SANCHEZ v. UNITED STATES

No. 69.

216 U.S. 167 (1910)

ALVAREZ Y SANCHEZ v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. S. Mallet-Prevost for appellant.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General John Q. Thompson, with whom Mr. Franklin W. Collins was on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant, an inhabitant and citizen of Porto Rico, seeks to recover from the United States the value of a certain office held by him in that Island before and during the war with Spain, of which office, it is alleged, he was illegally deprived by the United States. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained and judgment given for the United States, the

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