CARTAS v. UNITED STATES

No. 122.

250 U.S. 545 (1919)

CARTAS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 10, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Solicitor General, Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis and Mr. George M. Anderson, for the United States, in support of the motion.

Mr. William R. Andrews and Mr. George H. Lamar, for appellant, in opposition to the motion. Mr. Thomas M. Henry was on the brief.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought to recover from the United States $51,000 in American gold coin with interest from 1869, based upon a contract alleged to have been made in that year by the United States as the result of a deposit of the principal sum claimed on a war vessel of the United States. The court, concluding that the facts alleged had no substantial tendency to establish...

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