United States v. Redgrave

Citations

• 116 U.S. 474
• 6 S. Ct. 444
• 29 L. Ed. 697
• 1886 U.S. LEXIS 1787

Syllabus

<p>Cadet-engineers who had finished their four years’ course at the Naval Academy, had passed their final academic examinations, and had received their diplomas before the passage of the act of August 5, 1882, 22 Stat. 284, be-r came graduates, and were not made naval cadets by that act.</p> <p>The provision in the act of August 5, 1882, 22 Stat. 284, for the discharge of surplus naval cadet graduates was prospective only, and did not apply to the classes of 1881, and 1882.</p>