In re Harrold
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of the case: The matter' above designated was transmitted to the court under the Bowman Act by the Secretary of War on the 5th April, 1888. The following are the facts as found by the court: I. First Lieut.
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The Reporters’ statement of the case: The matter' above designated was transmitted to the court under the Bowman Act by the Secretary of War on the 5th April, 1888. The following are the facts as found by the court: I. First Lieut. O. W. Harrold belonged to Battery F, Third United States Artillery, when it was designated by the President, under Revised Statutes, section 1101, as an additional battery to be mounted and equipped as a “ light battery ” of that regiment, to take effect August 15, 1882, and he actually served therewith, and was so employed on such duty, from that date continuously…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The matter involved in this case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of War, under like circumstances as was the matter of the travel pay of Major Billings, recently decided (23 O. Cls. B., 166).
Some of the questions involved are the same as in that case, and our views in relation to them, having been fully expressed, we shall not now repeat.
The only question to be decided is whether or not an officer belonging to a battery designated by the President to be mounted and equipped as an “ additional light battery,” under-section…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. WilliamsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
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- Anderson v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1904