Case ID: us-ct-cl_16/html/0634-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Hablan Field, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles J. Folger, appellant, v. The United States, appellees.
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.,
    
    The court beloiv decides that an assistant treasurer who receives and sells internal revenue stamps, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, under the provisions of Act 30th June, 1864 (13 Stat. L., 297 § 170), 'is not entitled to a commission or extra compensation for such service.
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed upon the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Hablan

delivered the opinion of tbe Supreme Court, February 28; 1880.

Field, J.:

I dissent from the judgment of the court.

I think that Mr. Folger was entitled to the difference between the five per cent, given by the government and the amount he allowed to the purchasers.