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NEWMAN v. MOYERS

No. 85.

253 U.S. 182 (1920)

40 S.Ct. 478

64 L.Ed. 849

NEWMAN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF ERSKINE, ET AL. v. MOYERS ET AL., PARTNERS, TRADING AS MOYERS & CONSAUL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 17, 1920.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Frierson, with whom The Solicitor General and Mr. A.F. Myers were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Charles F. Consaul, with whom Ida M. Moyers was on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the court.

By the Omnibus Claims Act of March 4, 1915, c. 140, 38 Stat. 962, 963, discussed in Calhoun v. Massie, decided this day, ante, 170, Ursula Ragland Erskine became entitled to receive from the Secretary of the Treasury the sum of $1,836.66. Long before that date she and the firm of Moyers and Consaul, attorneys, had entered into a contract for the prosecution of her claim against the Government...

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