United States v. Pfitsch

Citations

• 256 U.S. 547
• 41 S. Ct. 569
• 65 L. Ed. 1084
• 1921 U.S. LEXIS 1586

Syllabus

<p>Section 10 of the Lever Act (August 10,1917, c. 53,40 Stat. 276, 279), providing that any person dissatisfied with the President’s award for supplies requisitioned under that section shall receive 75% of the award and may sue the United States for the balance claimed, confers jurisdiction on the District Courts “to hear and determine all such controversies,” — while other sections of the act providing for requisitions and awards in respect of other .classes of property, entitle persons dissatisfied to sue the United States “in the manner provided by §24, par. 20, and§ 145 of the Judicial Code,” which confer concurrent jurisdiction on the District Courts and the Court of Claims to adjudicate claims against the United States. Held, referring to the legislative history of the act and to other acts in pari materia, that the jurisdiction under § 10 is conferred exclusively on the District Courts as part of their ordinary jurisdiction over actions at law for money,' of which the right to trial by jury is An incident, and that a judgment rendered under that. section is therefore not reviewable in this court by direct writ of error. P. 550.</p> <p>Writ of error dismissed.</p>