UNITED STATES v. DAWES

No. 8757.

151 F.2d 639 (1945)

UNITED STATES ex rel. NITKEY v. DAWES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

November 7, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter F. Dodd and Harry G. Fins, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

J. Albert Woll, U. S. Atty., Andrew J. Dallstream, Arthur M. Cox, and John F. Cashen, Jr., all of Chicago, Ill., J. Gregory Bruce, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., and Fredric H. Stafford and John B. Robinson, Jr., both of Chicago, Ill., (Pam, Hurd & Reichmann, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellees.

Before SPARKS, MAJOR, and KERNER, Circuit Judges.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is prosecuted only by the plaintiff, Raymond J. Nitkey, hereafter referred to as the "relator." The case is a qui tam civil action. The complaint was filed June 22, 1943, under the "Informer's Act," as it then existed. 31 U.S.C.A. §§ 231 to 235 inclusive.* The amended complaint was filed August 19, 1943. This Act was amended December 23, 1943, and on January 20, 1944, the District Court, under...

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