STURGES & ANOTHER, EXECUTORS
v.
UNITED STATES

U.S. | 1886-03-29
117 U.S. 363 Supreme Court of the United States (1886) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 29 L. Ed. 920 · 6 S. Ct. 767 · 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1849 · SCDB 1885-185
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Opinion of the Court
MR. Chief Justice Waite

MR. Chief Justice Waite delivered the opinion of the court.

This judgment is reversed on the authority of Mason v. Sargent, 104 U. S. 689, and the cause remanded, with instructions to reverse the judgment of the District Court and to send. the case back to that court for further proceedings according to law.

jReversed.

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