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PREVOST v. MORGENTHAU

No. 88892.

22 F.Supp. 43 (1938)

PREVOST v. MORGENTHAU, Secretary of the Treasury.

District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

January 18, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashby Williams, of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Leslie C. Garnett, U. S. Atty., and Allen J. Krouse, Asst. Dist. Atty., both of Washington, D. C., for defendant.

BAILEY, Justice.

This is an action brought by the administrator of one Teresa De Prevost, deceased, seeking the issuance of a writ of mandamus to compel the defendant, as Secretary of the Treasury, to pay to him the sum of $25,000, appropriated by act of Congress to be paid to the plaintiff's intestate. The defendant claims that, though the bill appropriating this sum was passed by both houses of Congress, it was returned to the Senate, in which the bill originated...

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