William Burnham Woods,
Jessup v. United States — Opinion of the Court
“ This conclusion disposes also of the second ground upon which the motion to dismiss was based; for if the United States can, without the authority of any statute, take a valid bond payable to the United States, they can maintain a suit upon it in their own name. It would be absurd to hold a bond to be valid on which a suit in the name of the obligee could not be maintained. ”
