COOKE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES


91 U.S. 389 (____)

COOKE ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.E. Burrell and Mr. R.L. Ashhurst for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Attorney-General Pierrepont and Mr. Solicitor-General Phillips for the defendants in error.


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

The United States sued Jay Cooke & Co., in this action, to recover back money paid them by the assistant-treasurer in New York for the purchase or redemption before maturity, under the the act of Aug. 12, 1866 (14 Stat. 31), of what purported to be eighteen 7-30 treasury notes, issued under the authority of the act of March 3, 1865 (13 Stat. 468), but which it...

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