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MULLEN BENEVOLENT CORP. v. U.S.

No. 32.

290 U.S. 89 (1933)

54 S.Ct. 38

78 L.Ed. 192

JOHN K. & CATHERINE S. MULLEN BENEVOLENT CORP. v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1933.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Branch Bird, with whom Mr. W.G. Bissell was on the brief, for petitioner.

Assistant Attorney General Wideman, with whom Solicitor General Biggs and Messrs. Wm. W. Scott and W.S. Ward were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This action was brought in the District Court for Idaho, under the Tucker Act, to recover a balance due on improvement district bonds issued by the village of American Falls, Idaho, for sidewalk and sewer construction. The theory of the petitioner, holder of the securities, was that the liability of the United States arose out of its acquisition of land in the districts for the construction of the American Falls...

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