McCarl v. Cox

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a decree in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, restraining appellants from deducting from the salary of the appellee, a Commander in the United States Navy, the sum of $1,754.85, which the appellant MeCarl, as Comptroller General, conceived to represent improper payments of allowances; appellee insisting that those allowances were properly made. By stipulation of counsel, the ease was heard upon the pleadings, “as upon hill and answer.”

The first question presented is whether the Comptroller General is clothed with authority to collect, by way of…