Case ID: us-ct-cl_37/html/0557-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice White", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ALONZO J. VAN DUZEE v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [35 C. Cls. R., 214; 185 U. S. R., 278.]
    
      0» the defendant's Appeal.
    
    The claimant, clerk of the Circuit Court for the northern district of Iowa, sues for compensation for filing and entering separate and distinct records and other official papers appertaining to the office of commissioners which were deposited in his office.
    The court below decides:
    1. Where the claimant has the right of appeal the court is free to examine the question involved fully, and express its own conclusion; but where the defendants alone have the right, the court is constrained to follow a decision against them, with which they, having the right to appeal, rested content.
    2. It does not comport with the judicial integrity of the Federal authority that there he gross diversities of statutory interpretation in different Federal Courts when the means exist for bringing them into one unquestionable rule.
    The decision of the court below is reversed on the ground that the statute directing the deposit of the papers from the commissioners’ office did not authorize them to be filed, and that there was no provision for compensating the clerk for any other service.
   Mr. Justice White

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court April 28, 1902.