UNITED STATES v. HUNT


81 U.S. 550 (1871)

14 Wall. 550

UNITED STATES v. HUNT.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. T.J.D. Fuller, in support of the ruling below.

Mr. C.H. Hill, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court.

Our duty in construing acts of Congress is to give the meaning to words which Congress obviously intended. It may be that in the strict sense of the military term the rank of brigadier and brevet brigadier is the same, but it is well known that practically they are by no means identical, and that the position of the former is, in many respects, better than that of the latter...

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