MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.
In 1912 the United States sued the Canal Company to recover the amount of three dividends which had been declared on shares of its capital stock owned by the Government, in the years 1873, 1875, and 1876, payment of which, it was averred, had been refused when demand was made therefor in the year 1911.
After various vicissitudes the case went to trial on issue joined on the plea of payment by the Company...
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