Markley v. United States

The question for decision is whether Major Markley is entitled to rental allowance under the facts found and the applicable statutes. The facts show that he was serving as a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Department at headquarters in the Panama Canal Department, Canal Zone, when an order dated October 5,1922, was issued relieving him from further duty in that department, effective at such time as would enable him to proceed on the first available transport sailing from Cristobal to New York. This order also directed that immediately upon his arrival in the United States the officer…