Dennison v. United States

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 and 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 had 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 of claims directed a judgment in favor of the petitioner for $678.10, whereupon petitioner appealed to this court.

R. R. McMahon, for appellant.

Asst. Atty. Gen. Pradt and Felix Branigan, for the United States.

Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court.