Corkery v. United States

The plaintiff, an enlisted man in the Army, brings this action to recover mileage upon his honorable discharge from the service on June 12, 1920, from his place of discharge, Coblenz, Germany, to his bona fide residence at Klamatli Falls, Oregon.

The applicable statute is the act of February 28, 1919, 40 Stat. 1203, which provides as follows:

“ That an enlisted man honorably discharged from the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps since November eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, or who may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall receive five cents per mile from the place of his discharge to his…