UNITED STATES EX REL. FOREMAN v. MEYER


227 U.S. 452 (1913)

UNITED STATES EX REL. FOREMAN v. MEYER, SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1913.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Patrick H. Loughran for petitioner.

The Solicitor General, Mr. Clarence R. Wilson, United States Attorney, and Mr. Reginald S. Huidekoper in opposition.


MR. JUSTICE DAY delivered the opinion of the court.

Foreman filed a petition in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a writ of mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Navy to record his name upon the register of retired officers of the Navy as a paymaster's clerk from the twenty-seventh of June, 1910. An answer having been filed, to which the petitioner interposed a demurrer, the Supreme Court, upon the petitioner electing to stand on his demurrer, entered...

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