State National Bank v. United States

The judgment of the court below is affirmed on the ground that where, by the connivance of a clerk in the office of an assistant treasurer of the United States, a person unlawfully obtains from that office money belonging to the United States, and, to replace it, pays to the clerk'money which he obtains by fraud from a bank, the clerk having no knowledge of tbe *538means by which the latter money was obtained, the United States are not.liable to refund the money to the bank.