Case ID: us-ct-cl_59/html/0960-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Chief Justice Taft", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE UNITED STATES v. CHARLES J. FERRIS
    [57 C. Cls. 566; 265 U. S. 165]
    Judgment was rendered against the United States in the court below. Op. appeal the judgment was reversed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    An Army officer was not “serving with troops operating against an enemy,” within the meaning of section 7 of the act of April 26, 1898, c. 191, 80 Stat. 364, while exercising a command in a camp of instruction in this country during- the late war in Europe.
   Mr. Chief Justice Taft

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court May 26, 1924.