Royer v. United States

The plaintiff in the year 1918 was serving in France as a first lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army of the United States. On August 5, 1918, General Pershing by cable recommended that the plaintiff be promoted to the office of major in the Medical Reserve Corps. On August 22, 1918, the Surgeon General of the Army recommended that the plaintiff be appointed to the office of captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, which recommendation was approved by the Secretary of War. On September 23, 1918, The Adjutant General of the Army cabled to General Pershing that the plaintiff had been…