Case Name: WILLIAM H. WILLIAMSON v. SOLDIERS BONUS BOARD
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1924-02-29
Citations: 158 Minn. 532
Docket Number: No. 23,832
Parties: WILLIAM H. WILLIAMSON v. SOLDIERS BONUS BOARD.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 158
Pages: 532–532

Head Matter:
WILLIAM H. WILLIAMSON v. SOLDIERS BONUS BOARD.
February 29, 1924.
No. 23,832.
Relator not entitled to bonus.
Relator not entitled to soldier’s bonus because evidence showed he was not a resident of Minnesota when mustered into military service. [Reporter.]
Upon the relation of William H. Williamson the supreme court granted its writ of certiorari directed to the Soldiers Bonus Board requiring the board to certify to the court a complete record of all proceedings in the matter of the application of relator for a soldier’s bonus.
Affirmed.
Halvor Steenerson, Theodore F. Neils and 0. 0. Myhre, for relator.
Clifford, L. Hilton, Attorney General, and Albert F. Pratt, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
Reported in 197 N. W. 257.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Certiorari to the Soldiers Bonus Board to review the disallowance, on August 16, 1921, of the relator's claim for a bonus, and the approval, on December 11, 1921, of such disallowance by the board of review. The writ was served on the adjutant general, who appeared specially and objected to the jurisdiction of the court on several grounds. We do not stop to consider them because in our opinion the relator cannot prevail on the merits. The claim was disallowed on the ground that relator failed to prove that he was a resident of the state of Minnesota when he entered upon active duty in the military forces of the United States. In affirming the action of the bonus board, the board of review made this statement: "After a careful consideration of all the evidence in the ease, this board finds that the applicant was not a bona fide resident of the State of Minnesota at time of enlistment."
In In re Hunt, 151 Minn. 45, 51, 185 N. W. 943, the effect of the findings of these boards, when their action is reviewed in this court, was stated as follows: "Findings of fact of boards of this character are conclusive in certiorari, unless it is made to appear that a wrong principle of law was applied or there has been a demonstrable mistake of fact."
A careful examination of the return has satisfied us that there was ample evidence to justify the board in concluding that relator was not a resident of this state when he was mustered into the military service of the United States.
Order affirmed.