Barnett v. Hines

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the appellant’s bill of complaint upon the ground that the District Court had no jurisdiction to hear and determine the case set forth in the bill. The bill sought a mandatory injunction commanding the appellee, Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs of the United States: To vacate a ruling that the appellant was not entitled to continue to receive the retirement pay of an emergency officer of the United States Army; to grant a review, without consideration of a certain regulation, of the appellant’s claim for retirement pay;…