UNITED STATES v. MORRISON


96 U.S. 232 (1877)

UNITED STATES v. MORRISON.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Assistant-Attorney-General Smith for the appellant.

Mr. Halbert E. Paine and Mr. Benjamin F. Grafton, contra.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

The single question presented in this case is, whether, since the Revised Statutes, a regimental quartermaster, serving also as acting assistant-commissary, is entitled to additional pay on that account.

By sect. 1102, Rev. Stat., each regiment of cavalry is to have among its officers one quartermaster, who is to be an "extra lieutenant, selected from the first and second lieutenants of the regiment...

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