Potts v. United States

Howard D. Potts, an assistant engineer of the navy, being physically disabled, was examined by a naval retiring ‘board who reported that he was incapacitated from active service, and that in their judgment the incapacity did not originate in the line of duty. In this report the President concurred, and directed a retirement on furlough pay.

Tbe sections of tlie Revised Statutes governing such a proceeding are as follows:

“ Sec. 1449. Said retiring board shall be authorized to inquire into and determine the facts touching the nature, and occasion of the disability of any such officer, and shall…