Samuel Spencer v. Albert I. Bullock

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

The defendants, who are the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Chief of its Metropolitan Police Department, appeal from a judgment that they retire the plaintiff from the department and award him retirement compensation.1

The plaintiff was suspended from the police department, because of a conspiracy indictment, from October 23, 1951 to January 29,1952. But the District Court directed his acquittal and the department restored him to duty. On February 11, 1952 he applied for retirement. He was then in active service as a police inspector. He had served 25…