Robertson v. United States

This case comes before the court under an act retiring the plaintiff in the grade of “lieutenant commander on the retired list of the Navy with pay and allowances of the fourth pay period, as now prescribed under existing laws, and with credit for all service which he is now entitled to count in the computation of his pay.”

Plaintiff relies on the cases of Sweeney v. United States, 82 C. Cls. 640, and Ralston v. United States, 91 C. Cls. 91, certiorari denied October 21, 1940. (311 U. S. 687.) These cases are not apposite. We are governed entirely by the terms of the special act and it is…