Case ID: us-ct-cl_33/html/0504-01.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

CHARLES M. DENNISON v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No opinion in C. Cls. R.;
    168 U. S. R., 241.]
    
      On the claimants Appeal.
    
    This was a petition by the chief supervisor for the northern district of New York for fees and disbursements connected with the general election of 1890, amounting- to $16,612.79, of which $2,752.60 were disallowed by the Treasury Department; for like fees aud disbursements connected with the general election of 1892, amounting to $18,998.94, of which $2,581.75 were disallowed; and also for fees connected with the examination of witnesses to show that certain supervisors, who bad been appointed in the city of Troy to attend a Congressional election in 1888, had been deterred from discharging their duties by violence, or threats of violence, by disorderly persons. This account amounted to $624.65, of which $402.65 were disallowed.
    The petition alleged that all these accounts had been approved and allowed by the District Court.
    Upon a finding of facts, which do not differ materially from those set up in the petition, the court below directed a judgment in favor of the claimant for $678.10, whereupon petitioner appealed.
    The decision of the court below is affirmed except as to two items, under which the amount allowed is increased, making the judgment $775160.
    November 29, 1897.
   Mr. Justice Brown

-delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court