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Legal Citation: 37 U.S. 524 (1838)

Appellant
Amos Kendall, U.S. Postmaster General

Appellee
United States

Appellant's Claim
That Kendall should not have to order the Post Office Department to pay certain funds to a firm that did business with them, even though a federal court had ordered him to, if he himself, in his official capacity, did not believe the funds should be awarded.

Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Francis Scott Key; Benjamin F. Butler, U.S. Attorney General

Chief Lawyers for Appellee
Richard S. Coxe, Reverdy Johnson

Justices for the Court
Henry Baldwin, Philip Pendleton Barbour, John Catron, John McKinley, John McLean, Joseph Story, Roger Brooke Taney, Smith Thompson (writing for the Court), James Moore Wayne

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

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