Sherman v. Grinnell

Citations

• 144 U.S. 198

Syllabus

<p>S. collected money from the Treasury of the United States as the attorney at law of G., a former collector at the port of New York., Not paying it over, the executors of G. brought suit against him in a state court in New York, to recover this money. He set up in defence that the case had been reopened by the. government, and that he feared he would be compelled to repay it; and that no valid agency could exist by force of the statutes of the United States to collect and pay over this money. Both defences were overruled and judgment entered for plaintiff. A ' writ of error was sued out to this court. Held, that no Federal question was involved in the decision of the state court.</p>