Evans v. United States

This case was decided by the court June 10, 1909 (44 O. Cls., 549), and was again presented February 2,1910, upon a motion for a new trial and for amendment of the findings of fact. We have given the motion due consideration, and again decide that the facts are therein correctly stated; but upon more mature reflection (although there is in the minds of some members of the court reasonable grounds for doubt), that we, perhaps, gave a wrong construction or rather too restricted a construction to the scope of the duties of the superintendent of the Government Hospital as defined by section 4839…