Manzi v. United States

Per Curiam:*

In June 1969 authorized officials of the Army Quartermaster Catalog Agency in Philadelphia accepted plaintiff’s resignation from his GrS-5 clerical job at a time when plaintiff, without knowledge of his superiors, was temporarily suffering from an exacerbation of a mild but chronic mental illness (schizophrenic reaction) *492which — as corroborated by the testimony of psychiatrists for both parties at trial here — “precluded him from exercising free will, or from understanding the transaction,” in the language of Federal Personnel Manual (FPM) 'Supplement 752-1, sec. S2-2^(6), reading…