United States v. Bishop

This case does not differ in principle from that of United States v. Symonds, just decided.

Bishop is now, and has been for more than four years, a lieutenant-commander .in the navy. By direction of the Secretary of the Navy, he assumed the duties of executive officer of the training-ship Minnesota, on the 18th of April, 1884. During the period of such service that vessel was stationed in New York harbor, cruising and moving about under her own power. Her machinery and equipment were kept in order, and she was-perfectly seaworthy, capable, upon short notice, of being used in a protracted…