MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the court.
The court below, passing by other grounds of defence, dismissed the petition upon the proposition that it disclosed a case within the ruling of this court in the case of Totten, Administrator, v. United States,
That was a case where one Lloyd asserted that, under a contract with President Lincoln, he was to proceed South and ascertain the number...
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