Mare v. Alexander

LOWELL, District Judge.

This was a petition asking that a writ of mandamus be issued to the paymaster of the United States cruiser Cleveland, directing him to pay to a naval lieutenant the full amount of his salary, without deducting therefrom, under an order of the Comptroller General, sums formerly paid to him under the designation of “rental and subsistence allowances” as support of his dependent mother. When the Comptroller General assumed office ho issued an order, the legality of which is not contested, that the payment of such sums should cease. He further, however, issued the order…