Case ID: us-ct-cl_29/html/0551-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Brown", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EZRA BAIRD v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No opinion in C. Cls.;
    150 U. S. R., 54.]
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    Claimant was marshal of the United States for the Territory of Idaho, and recovered judgment in the court helow for $1,088.40 as fees for the disbursement of funds of the United States for the use of the penitentiary of Idaho.
    The decision of the court below is reversed on the ground that the claimant was paid a fixed salary for his services under section 1892, Revised Statutes.
   Mr. Justice Brown

delivered the opinion of the Supreme

Court, October 30, 1893.