Court Opinion

ID: 8632234
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-24 19:39:29.356429+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:55:48.598688
License: Public Domain

NELSON, District Júdge,
in delivering the opinion of the court, said that “other persons,” in section 1419 [Rév. St U. S.], meant persons capable of making such a contract, and that McNulty’s Case [Case No. 8,917] was conclusive on him on this, and he declined to follow Collins’ Case, 25 How. Pr. 157, in which the enlistment under the precise facts of the case before him was held valid. The minor was ordered to be discharged upon refunding to the United States the amount of the advance made upon enlistment