REYNOLDS v. UNITED STATES

No. 734.

292 U.S. 443 (1934)

REYNOLDS v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 28, 1934.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Francis W. Hill, Jr., for petitioner.

Mr. H. Brian Holland, with whom Solicitor General Biggs, Assistant Attorney General Sweeney, and Mr. Paul A. Sweeney were on the brief, for the United States.


MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in the Court of Claims by petitioner, an honorably discharged veteran of the Spanish-American War, to recover judgment against the United States for money deducted from his pension on account of board furnished him while he was an inmate of St. Elizabeths Hospital. He was committed to the hospital as an insane person on June 19, 1911, and remained there until April 25, 1930, when he was...

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