Eskridge v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court as amended- by the order of the court November 11,1895: I. The claimant, Richard I. Eskridge, was, from the 1st day of May, 1892, to the 31st day of October, 1894, a captain in the Regular Army of the United States of more than twenty years’ service. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court as amended- by the order of the court November 11,1895: I. The claimant, Richard I. Eskridge, was, from the 1st day of May, 1892, to the 31st day of October, 1894, a captain in the Regular Army of the United States of more than twenty years’ service. II. During said period the following were in force as a part of the Infantry Drill Regulations of the Army: “Paragraph 249. In this school the senior officer presentís the instructor; in the text he is designated as major. “Paragraph 255. In line…
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
This case presents one of those delicate questions of Army administration which the judiciary is always reluctant to determine.
The claimant, a captain in the Twenty-third United States Infantry, has been in command of the battalion of that regiment from the 1st May, 1892, to the present time. The Infantry Drill Regulations of the Army, 249, 255, contemplate and direct that the field and staff officers be mounted. Captain Eskridge accordingly provided himself with a major’s outfit of two horses and furnished forage for the same. For the period extending from the 1st May, 1892, to the 31st…
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