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UNITED STATES v. FERRIS

No. 217.

265 U.S. 165 (1924)

UNITED STATES v. FERRIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alfred A. Wheat, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. George A. King, with whom Mr. William B. King and Mr. George R. Shields were on the brief, for appellee.

Mr. Morrison Shafroth, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was a suit by the plaintiff, a Lieutenant-Colonel of Field Artillery, National Army, in the service of the United States, to recover increased pay and allowances for exercising a command as Colonel of Field Artillery from August 27, 1917, to January 5, 1918. His action is based on § 7 of the Act of Congress of April 26, 1898, c. 191, 30 Stat. 364, 365, as...

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