Decatur v. Paulding
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. On ,the 3d of March, 1837, an act was passed by Congress,.giving to the widow of any officer who had died in the naval service of the United States, out of the navy pension fund, half the monthly pay to which the deceased officer had been entitled to receive under the laws in force on the 1st day of January, 1835; the half-pay to.commence from the death of such…
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IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. On ,the 3d of March, 1837, an act was passed by Congress,.giving to the widow of any officer who had died in the naval service of the United States, out of the navy pension fund, half the monthly pay to which the deceased officer had been entitled to receive under the laws in force on the 1st day of January, 1835; the half-pay to.commence from the death of such officer: the pension so allowed, to cease on the intermarriage or death of the widow, &c. On the same 3d of March, 1837, a…
1Opinion of the Court · TaneyChief Justice Taney
This case is-brought here by a writ of error, from the judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, refusing to award a peremptory mandamus.
The material facts in the case arp as follow: By an act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March, 1837, the widow of any officer who died in thé naval service, became entitled to receive out of the navy, pension fund half the monthly pay to which the deceased dfficer would have been entitled, under the acts regulating the pay of the navy, in force on the 1st day of January, 1835; the half-pay to commence from the time of…
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