Legal Opinion
Humphrey's v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 27, 1935No. 667PublishedCited by 609 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sutherland
Plaintiff brought suit in the Court of Claims against the United States to recover a sum of money alleged to be due the deceased for salary as a Federal Trade Commissioner from October 8,1933, when the President undertook to remove him from office, to the time of his death on February 14, 1934. The court below has certified to this court two questions (Act of February 13, 1925, § 3 (a), c. 229, 43 Stat. 936, 939; 28 U. S. C. § 288), in respect of the power of the President to make the removal. The material facts which give rise to the questions are as follows:
William E. Humphrey, the…
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