Eclov v. United States

Plaintiff sues for loss of salary due to an alleged illegal reduction in grade. He charges that his superior, a Captain J. E. Moore, took away from him many of the duties incident to his position, which was a grade GS-13, and transferred them to another employee, one Ehoads, and then transferred plaintiff to another GS-13 position, and finally had this latter position down-graded to GS-12.

All of this, he alleges, was not done for the good of the service, but as an act of personal favoritism toward the said Ehoads, and, therefore, unlawful, and prejudicial to his rights.

He alleges he…