Mumma v. United States

This is a suit to recover the rental allowance to which plaintiff alleges he is entitled on account of his dependent mother. The proof shows that she was dependent, and that plaintiff was her chief support, and he is therefore entitled to the allowance. The only question presented is whether or not there should be deducted therefrom the value of one room occupied by him in the officers’ barracks.

In Ageton v. United States, 95 C. Cls., 718, the majority of the court held such deduction should be made.

*265Since I was counsel for the defendant in that case by virtue of my former office as Assistant…