Wallace v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant is executor of the estate of Robert B. Wallace, deceased, on account of whose services this claim is made. II. Robert B. Wallace entered the Army as a cadet July 1, 1886, and on May 5, 1898, he was a'first lieutenant of cavalry.
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The Reporters’’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant is executor of the estate of Robert B. Wallace, deceased, on account of whose services this claim is made. II. Robert B. Wallace entered the Army as a cadet July 1, 1886, and on May 5, 1898, he was a'first lieutenant of cavalry. On May 5, 1898, he was granted an indefinite leave of absence from the Regular Army, and on May 7, 1898, he was enrolled as lieutenant-colonel in the First Regiment Montana Volunteer Infantry, from which organization he was discharged on August 7,…
1Opinion of the CourtBarNey, J.
The claimant’s decedent entered the Regular Army as a cadet July 1, 1886, and continued in the regular service until May 5, 1898, when he was granted an indefinite leave of absence, then holding the rank of first lieutenant of cavalry. On May 7,1898, he was commissioned as lieutenant-colonel in the First Regiment, Montana Volunteer Infantry, from which organization he was relieved August 7, 1899, to enable him to assume his duties as colonel of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, United States Volunteers, to which latter position he had theretofore been duly commissioned. He served as colonel of…
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- Clark v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1901
- United States v. MerrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1870