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GIRARD TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 137.

270 U.S. 163 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 229

70 L.Ed. 524

GIRARD TRUST COMPANY, GEORGE STEVENSON, WILLIAM R. VERNER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James Craig Peacock, with whom Mr. John W. Townsend was on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell and Mr. Randolph S. Collins, Attorney in the Department of Justice, were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims under § 242 of the Judicial Code. The judgment was entered May 19, 1924, and the appeal was allowed July 3, 1924. The judgment dismissed the petition of the plaintiffs upon findings of fact. The Girard Trust Company and the other appellants are trustees of the estate of Alfred F. Moore, deceased.

Their claims are for interest not paid on...

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