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- Title: United States v. Babbit
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1861
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 56 KB
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Mr. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, and r. Gillet, of Washington city, for defendant. This was an action in the court below, upon the official bond of the defendant, Babbit, as register of the land office at Kanesville, in the State of Iowa. The bond bears date on the 9th day of May, 1853. The petition, we are advised, is according to the practice in the courts of that State. It sets out a copy of the bond, and alleges, as a breach, that Babbit, 'as such receiver, and by virtue of his office, to wit, from the 6th day of April, 1853, to the 20th day of October, 1856, received, as fees for the location of military bounty land warrants, under the provisions of the acts of Congress approved 11th of February, 1847, 25th of September, 1850, 22d of March, 1852, and 3d of March, 1855, the sum total of $13,879 08; and that sum the said Babbit still holds, and refuses to pay to the plaintiffs, though often requested and directed by the proper officers to do so–the sum of nine thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and twenty-four cents.' The pleader has annexed to, and made a part of the petition, a Treasury transcript of the accounts of the register, showing the balance against him claimed by the plaintiffs.