Court Opinion

ID: 8315846
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:01:10.042717+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:55.993617
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Which instruction the Court gave,
(Theuston, J.,
dissenting.)
Mr. Goxe then prayed the Court to instruct the jury, that, if they should believe, from the aforesaid evidence, that the said S. L. Southard did authorize and direct the allowance of the claim stated in said vouchers, Nos. 219 and 220, and that the accounting officers omitted to pass such items, upon such allowance, without any default of the defendant, then the said defendant is entitled to the allowance, unless, in making such allowance, the plaintiffs shall satisfy the jury that the said secretary was induced to make it, by fraud, imposition, or misapprehension of the facts of the case.