LOVETT v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 46026-46028.

66 F.Supp. 142 (1945)

LOVETT v. UNITED STATES. WATSON v. SAME. DODD v. SAME.

Court of Claims.

November 5, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Horsky, of Washington, D. C. (Edward B. Burling, Amy Ruth Mahin, and Covington, Burling, Rublee, Acheson & Shorb, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiffs.

Rawlings Ragland, of Washington, D. C., and Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., (Donald B. MacGuineas and Henry Weihofen, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the Atty. Gen.

John C. Gall, of Washington, D. C., (Dean Hill Stanley, William F. Howe, Karl M. Dollak, Jos. G. Butts, Jr., and John E. Ritzert, all of Washington, D. C., and Clark M. Robertson, of Milwaukee, Wis., on the brief), for the Congress of the United States.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, JONES, and MADDEN, Judges.


WHALEY, Chief Justice.

On August 26, 1943, plaintiff Robert Morss Lovett was appointed Executive Assistant to the Governor of the Virgin Islands by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to authority granted in Section 23 of the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States, approved June 22, 1936, 49 Stat.1807, 1813, 48 U.S. C.A. § 1405v. He took the oath of office and entered upon the duties thereof October 12, 1943. He performed them thereafter through...

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