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Show MAY REOPEN BONUS CASE Result of Minnesota Supreme Court Decision Likely to Affect "Non-Residence" "Non-Residence" Ruling. Claims of from 10,000 to 15,000 veterans vet-erans who registered and were Inducted Induct-ed Into the service from Minnesota, disallowed by the bonus board on a "nonresidence" ruling, may be reopened re-opened as a result of the recent decision de-cision of the state Supreme court in the case of Everett Baum. In its ruling the Supreme court held that a person temporarily residing In Minnesota at the time of the call for registration who registered and who thereafter left the state but returned to be inducted by the draft board into the service, Is entitled to the state bonus. Baum, who was born in Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, came to Minneapolis In May, 1917, obtained work and registered for the draft in June. The following January Janu-ary he went to Oregon and Washington, Washing-ton, but returned in July at the call or the draft board. He entered the service serv-ice and a year later was honorably discharged. dis-charged. The bonus board disallowed his claim on the grounds that he was not a bona fide resident of Minnesota. The Supreme court ruled that he was a resident because "the place of residence resi-dence is the place of work." It is pointed out by American Legion Le-gion members that if this is the case, fhe 10,000 or 15,000 similar applications applica-tions involving nearly $3,000,000 from others, who constituted the state's floating population on registration day, June 5, 1917, and who were subsequently subse-quently inducted, may also De affected by this decision. |