Graham v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was, at the time of rendering the services hereinafter found and ever since has been and now is, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant was, at the time of rendering the services hereinafter found and ever since has been and now is, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Washington, District of Columbia. II. On the 22d day of January, 1873, he was appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions an examining surgeon of the United States in the Pension Bureau; that on said date he was also appointed by the Secretary of the Interior a clerk in said Bureau; thereafter, to wit, on August 17, 1883, he was…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of the court:
This action is prosecuted to recover for services renderea by tbe claimant as a member of examining boards of surgeons under Bevised Statutes, section 4775, while at the same time bolding and receiving the salary of the office of assistant medical referee in tbe Pension Bureau.
Bevised Statutes, section 4775, is as follows:
u Examining surgeons duly appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, and such other qualified surgeons as may be employed in the Pension Office, may be required by him, from time to time, as he deems for the interests of the…
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