MS052
Austin Joseph Holliday Private Papers
August 2, 1949 - November 7, 1949

 

This Collection of three (3) articles chronicles Austin Joseph Holliday’s attempts to receive service-connected total and permanent disability from the Veterans’ Administration for an illness that occurred during World War I.  The plaintiff Holliday, a black WWI veteran, based his prayer for compensation under U.S. Judicial Code, Section 145, March 3, 1887, c—359, 1, 24 Stat. 505 and the World War Veterans Act 1924 in pursuant to Part I of Veterans Regulations Number I, as amended in the Economy Act, Public Law Number 2, 73rd Congress, March 20, 1933 on War Times Rates, etc.

 

Austin Holliday filed a petition in the United States Court of Claims on August 2nd, 1949, File Number 49226. The court made its decision on the Defendant’s Demurrer on November 7, 1949 and dismissed his petition.  Holliday then wrote an Appeal To The United States President and Congress.

 

This Collection is arranged in chronological order. 

 

These documents were donated to the William Madison Randall Library by Paul B. Eaglin, Special Assistant to the Chancellor/Legal Affairs, University of North Carolina at Wilmington on October 23, 1987.

 

It has been designated Accession Number 52 of the Manuscripts Collection, Special Collections Department, William Madison Randall Library, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, North Carolina 28403-3297.

 

There are no access restrictions on this collection.

 

Processed by Lana Donaldson Taylor

Special Collections Librarian
Manuscripts Collection
William Madison Randall Library

The University of North Carolina Wilmington

January 21, 1988
 

Inventory
Manuscript/Box/File

 

052/1/1
Petition in the U.S. Court of Claims.  Plaintiff:  Austin Joseph Holliday versus The United States of America Decision in the U.S. Court of Claims
Appeal to the U.S. President and Congress by AJH


052/1/2    Addition
Newspaper clip:  "A Soldier is a Soldier Until He Dies"  The Fayetteville Times, March 16, 1979, the article focuses on Sgt. William H. Smith, WWI veteran

 

COPYRIGHT:  Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.