McMullen v. United States

Plaintiff, after a service in the Army which commenced in 1896, and was active except for a period from 1906 to 1916, during which he was on the retired list, was, on June 1, 1934, found by a Board of Medical Officers to be permanently ' incapacitated for active service as a result of such service. Plaintiff would normally have been retired by the President as a result of his found incapacity, but on June 29 of that year the Chairman of a Subcommittee of the House Committee bn Military Affairs wrote the Secretary of War requesting that no action be taken toward placing the plaintiff on the…