Kantor v. United States

•Plaintiff, Lester J. Kantor, a medical doctor, having exhausted his administrative remedies without success before the Civil Service Commission, brings this action to receive a lump-sum payment1 or retirement annuity credit for 830 hours of unused sick leave 2 accumulated during his tenure with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the 'Interior, from February 1, 1939 until November 24, 1951.

Defendant does not contest that certain sick leave was, in fact, accumulated during plaintiff’s employment with the Indian Service. Defendant argues that although the unused sick leave was…