Harris Ellsworth, Chairman Civil Service Commission v. Edgar v. Maher

The plaintiff Maher, a veterans’ preference eligible employed by the Veterans Administration, was reduced in grade because of a reduction in force. The question is whether one Friedman, who was retained in the plaintiff’s former grade, was entitled to veterans’ preference. If he was not, he should have been demoted instead of the plaintiff.

Friedman was drafted and sent to camp July 17, 1918. On July 21, 1918 he was discharged from the draft as physically unfit. Since 1942 he has worked continuously for the government. In Hurley v. Crawley, 1931, 60 App.D.C. 245, 50 F.2d 1010, we held that a…