Wylly v. McCarl

LOWELL, District Judge.

This case presents a situation which resembles the plot of a comic opera rather than a serious problem presented to a court of justice. It is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought by a disbursing officer directed to Mmself to prevent himself from deducting from his own salary a sum which he had been ordered by the Comptroller General so to deduct, so that he may be ordered to command himself to pay himself the amount which he himself considers to be duo himself.

Stripped of its apparent absurdities, the ease raises the same question which has already been considered…