UNITED STATES v. LAUGHLIN

No. 200.

249 U.S. 440 (1919)

UNITED STATES v. LAUGHLIN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 14, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. C. Edward Wright, with whom Mr. Huston Thompson and Mr. Charles D. Mahaffie were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. F.W. Clements, with whom Mr. Wm. R. Andrews was on the brief, for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case, although involving but two hundred dollars, is deemed by the Government to be important because typical of a large group of cases of like character. Suit was brought by Laughlin in the Court of Claims under § 2 of the Act of March 26, 1908, c. 102, 35 Stat. 48, for the repayment of an alleged excess charge exacted of him when he made a preemption cash entry November 20, 1878, for a tract of 160...

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