MR. JUSTICE STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an application to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a mandamus to John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, commanding him to pay to Alexander McLeod, the relator, the sum of $4,279.94, with interest from the ninth day of November, 1874. The facts of the case, as they are made to appear, are as follows:—
On the eighteenth day of June, 1869, the relator recovered a judgment...
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