In re the Reference of the Claim of Morrison

On March 9, 1937, the Secretary of War addressed a letter to the Chief Justice of the Court of Claims in which he stated:

Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph 148 of the Judicial Code, I hereby refer to the Court of Claims, with request for its decision for my guidance and action, a claim now pending in the War Department filed by Captain Jewel E. Morrison * * *.

Subsequently a stipulation was entered into between the Acting Secretary of War and an Assistant Attorney General and filed August 10, 1938. As stated in the stipulation the facts are as follows:

*6071. On February 27, 1935, 1st…