TRIST v. CHILD


88 U.S. 441 (____)

21 Wall. 441

TRIST v. CHILD.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Durant and Horner, for the appellants.

Messrs. B.F. Butler and R.D. Mussey, contra.


Mr. Justice SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

The court below decreed to the appellee the amount of his claim, and enjoined Trist from receiving from the treasury "any of the money appropriated to him" by Congress, until he should have paid the demand of the appellee.

This decree, as regards that portion of the fund not claimed by the appellee, is an anomaly. Why the claim should affect that part of the fund...

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