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UNITED STATES v. SMITH

No. 253.

256 U.S. 11 (1921)

41 S.Ct. 413

65 L.Ed. 808

UNITED STATES v. L.P. & J.A. SMITH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 11, 1921.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis, with whom Mr. Wilfred Hearn, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the briefs, for the United States.

Mr. John E. Morley, with whom Mr. Rufus S. Day and Mr. Roscoe M. Ewing were on the brief, for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

April 14, 1919, the Court of Claims rendered a judgment against the United States in favor of L.P. & J.A. Smith (appellees, and we shall so refer to them) for the sum of $119,304.27. To review that judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The appellees were a partnership doing business at the times herein stated under the firm name of L.P. and J.A. Smith.

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