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Supreme Court· 2/24/1931

Prussian v. United States

Citations

  • 282 U.S. 675
  • 51 S. Ct. 223
  • 75 L. Ed. 610
  • 1931 U.S. LEXIS 35

How courts have described this case

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  • clause \other writing\ was intended to \extend[ ] the penal provisions of the statute to all writings of every class if forged for the purpose of obtaining money from an officer of the United States\
  • interpretation including endorsement “would be possible only by a strained construction of the language” — “if the point were doubtful, the doubt would be resolved by a consideration of the purpose and history of the Act”
  • in which the Supreme Court held that a forged endorsement of the payee’s name on a genuine government draft is not a forgery of an “obligation of the United States,” the endorsement being at most the purported obligation of the endorser and not an obligation of the United States

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Judges: Stone

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