DOUGHERTY v. UNITED STATES

No. 5178.

45 F.2d 928 (1930)

Proctor L. DOUGHERTY, Sidney Taliaferro, and William B. Ladue, Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Walter D. TOMS, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of District of Columbia.

Decided December 1, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. H. Stephens, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

W. Gwynn Gardiner, of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, ROBB, Associate Justice, and WHEAT, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.


ROBB, Associate Justice.

This case (in which appellee on retirement in August, 1928, was awarded by appellants a pension of $50 per month) is ruled also by our decision in Dougherty v. United States ex rel. Browning (No. 5176) 60 App. D. C. 8, 45 F.2d 926.

The judgment, therefore, should be modified so as to require the payment to appellee of a pension at the rate of $87.50 per month, commencing August 16, 1928, and continuing...

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