McBlair v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters1 statement of the case: This case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of the Treasury under the Revised Statutes, § 1063. The following are the facts as found by the court so far as they are involved in the decision of the case: I. The claimant was appointed a first lieutenant in the Army on the 14th May, 1861, and accepted the appointment on the 22d June, 1861. II.
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The Reporters1 statement of the case: This case was transmitted to the court by the Secretary of the Treasury under the Revised Statutes, § 1063. The following are the facts as found by the court so far as they are involved in the decision of the case: I. The claimant was appointed a first lieutenant in the Army on the 14th May, 1861, and accepted the appointment on the 22d June, 1861. II. In September, 1862, he was examined by a retiring board, organized under the provisions of the act of August 3,1861, which found as follows: “After mature deliberation and a careful consideration of his…
1Opinion of the CourtWeld on, J.
The claimant was appointed first lieutenant in the Army on the 14th day of May, 1861, and in September, 1863, was examined by a retiring board organized under the provisions of the act of August 3,1861. Said board made the following report, as the result of its examination :
“After mature deliberation and careful consideration of his case, the Board find that First Lieutenant J. H. McBlair jr. Fifteenth United States Infantry is incapacitated for active service, and that his incapacity does not result from any incident of the service, and the Board recommend that he be wholly retired from the…
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