Ritter v. United States

The plaintiff, who had been appointed a Judge of a District Court of the United States, brings this suit to recover the salary appurtenant to this office from April 1, 1936, to *294and including April 30, 1936, in the sum of $833.33 which has not been paid to him. In his petition the plaintiff sets out the commission which he had received appointing him a District Judge signed by the President on February 15, 1929, and alleges that he performed the duties of his office until prevented from so doing by reason of impeachment proceedings against him. The petition shows that in March 1936 the House…