Allen v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: The orders, rules, and regulations, established by the heads of the executive departments, with the approval of the President, in execution of or supplementary to, but not in conflict with statutes defining their powers or conferring rights upon others, have the force and effect of laws.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case: The orders, rules, and regulations, established by the heads of the executive departments, with the approval of the President, in execution of or supplementary to, but not in conflict with statutes defining their powers or conferring rights upon others, have the force and effect of laws. While Congress can not delegate either legislative or judicial powers to an executive officer, it may confer on such officer the power and duty to execute and enforce a statute, and as an incident thereto, to determine the existence of facts upon which the application of…
1Opinion of the CourtHat, Judge
The plaintiff brings this suit to recover the sum of $486.32, which he claims to be due him by virtue of the act of Congress approved May 22,1917, 40 Stat., 84.
The plaintiff enlisted as a ship’s writer in the United States Coast Guard on September 18, 1913, and on January 13, 1917, he was rated as a yeoman in the Coast Guard, and was serving as such' on April 6, 1917, when war with Germany was declared and on May 22,1917, when the act above cited was passed. On September 14, 1918, he reenlisted in the Coast Guard as yeoman, and was honorably discharged on May 29,1919.
The duties of yeoman in…
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