United States v. Wickersham

The appellee brought suit in the Court of Claims to recover upon an alleged claim for compensation at the rate of $1,100 per annum, from November 1, 1897, to July 1, 1902, and -averred that he. was a clerk in the office of the United States surveyor-general in Boise, ■ Idaho, in the classified civil service, from which employment on said first-mentioned date, he was suspended/ without fault of his own or just cause. He stated his readiness to discharge the duties of the officé and set forth in detail what he claimed amounted to a wrongful suspension therefrom by the United States…