Case ID: us-ct-cl_17/html/0444-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Miller", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(14 C. Cls. R., 114; 105 U. S. R., 620.)
    The UNITED States, appellants, v. William Smith.
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    
      A paymaster without fault loses apaclcage of money. The Paymaster-General orders him to carry the loss on his accounts as money to he accounted for and subsequently orders him to malee good the loss. The officer complies with both orders. More than six years after the payment of the money, he brings his suit for relief vmder the Disbursing officers’ Act.
    
    The court below decides pro forma for tie purposes of an appeal that the statute of limitations does not bar the claimant’s action.
    The judgment of the court below is reversed on the ground that the statute of limitations applies.
   Mr. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, May 8, 1882.