Macfarland v. Bieber
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia directing the issuance of the writ of mandamus against the commissioners of the District of Columbia.
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Hearing on an appeal from an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia directing the issuance of the writ of mandamus against the commissioners of the District of Columbia. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This was an action brought in the supreme court of the District of Columbia for a writ of mandamus to compel Henry B. F. Macfarland, Henry L. West, and Jay J. Morrow, commissioners of the District of Columbia, to restore the name of petitioner, Sidney Bieber, to the roll of pensioners on the firemen’s relief fund, from which roll his name had been stricken…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Orsdel
The sole question presented by the record in this case is whether or not appellee acquired such a vested right in-the' pension granted by the act of Congress as could not be devested by a subsequent act of Congress. It is contended that the provision of the act of Congress requiring the commissioners to deduct from the compensation ■ of appellee, while on the fire-*519force, $1 per month, to be placed in the general relief fund, gave appellee an interest in that fund which ripened into a vested property right to the pension in question on his retirement from the service. The point here under…
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