Case: JAMES M. T. GLEESON v. THE UNITED STATES
Abbreviation: Gleeson v. United States
Decision Date: 1888-01-16
Docket Number: 
Citation: 23 Ct. Cl. 489
Volume: 23
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: JAMES M. T. GLEESON v. THE UNITED STATES.
Judges: 
Pages: 489–490

Head Matter:
JAMES M. T. GLEESON v. THE UNITED STATES.
(22 C. Cls. R., 82; 124 U. S. R., 255.)
On the defendants’ Appeal.
The claimant is appointed a railway post-office head clerk, at a salary of $1,400 per annum, in 1871, and serves until 1883. Between 1876 and 1882 his salary is reduced by the Postmaster-General.
The court below decides:
The Postmaster-General has authority to reduce the pay of a railway post-oflice head clerk prospectively at any time, and his continuation in the service will be upon the terms prescribed. But judgment pro forma for the purpose of an appeal is entered in favor of the claimant.
The judgment of the court below is reversed, on the ground that the irregularity in entering a judgment pro forma for pur poses of an appeal in a case where the judgment was less than $3,000 can not be passed over.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Gray
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court January 16, 1888.