Excerpt from Edward H. Phelan, Plaintiff in Error, Vs; The United States of America, Defendant in Error: Brief of Plaintiff in Error Your Honor and Gentlemen of the Jury: The Government expects that the evidence in this case will show (segregation and numbering being ours).(1) That the defendant was born July 13, 1886; that would bring him within the requirements of the selective service act; and that on June 5, 1917, the defendant should have registered the same as the rest of the men who were required by that act to register. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.