Case ID: us-ct-cl_21/html/0249-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Weldon, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

W. L. BRYAN v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No. 14733.
    Decided April 5, 1886.]
    
      On the Proofs.
    
    The only objection to a recovery raised by the defense is indentieal with that disposed of in the preceding case of Eavesies.
    For the reasons stated in the preceding case of Eavesies it is held that presentation of a commissioner’s account to the accounting officers of the Treasury is not necessary to give him a complete cause of action.
    
      The Reporters'1 statement of the case:
    The fact, as fonud by the court upon which the only controversy in this case arose was in these words: “ The balance of said account was not presented to the Treasury Department for payment.”
    
      Mr. O. G. Lancaster for the claimant.
    
      Mr. F. P. Dewees for the defendants.
   Weldon, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This claim is of the same character of the'claim made in the case of John S. Wallace (20 C. Cls. R., 273), of this court and affirmed by the Supreme Court (116 U. S. R., 398). The only point of defense made by the United States is based upon the fact that a large portion of the claim was not presented to the Department by the claimant for payment. We have held at the present term, on demurrer, in the case of Eavesies (ante), that such presentation was not necessary in order to give the petitioner a complete cause of action, and have fully explained the reason for it.

According to the doctrine of those cases the petioner is entitled to recover the sum of $806, and for that amount judgment will be entered in his favor.