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HUMPHREY'S EXECUTOR v. U.S.

No. 667.

295 U.S. 602 (1935)

HUMPHREY'S EXECUTOR v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 27, 1935.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wm. J. Donovan, orally (Messrs. Henry Herrick Bond and Ralstone R. Irvine were with him on the brief) for Humphrey's Executor.

Solicitor General Reed, with whom Assistant Attorney General Sweeney and Messrs. Paul A. Sweeney and M. Leo Looney, Jr., were on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff brought suit in the Court of Claims against the United States to recover a sum of money alleged to be due the deceased for salary as a Federal Trade Commissioner from October 8, 1933, when the President undertook to remove him from office, to the time of his death on February 14, 1934. The court below has certified to this court two questions (Act of February...

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