Roget v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims, finding in favor of the United States and dismissing the petition of the claimant, Eugenia A. Eoget, executrix of Edward A. Eoget, deceased. Edward A. Eoget was a professor of mathematics in the United States navy, having been commissioned July 8, 1864, to rank from May 21, 1864. On August 1, of that year, being then sixty-two years of age, he was placed upon the retired list, in accordance with the act of Congress approved December 21, 186Í, 12 Stat. 329, c. 1, which contains the following provisions :

“ That whenever the name of any…