United States v. Corson

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of appellee for the sum of $538; $328 of which represents his claim for pay as a captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers from March 27, 1865,'to June 9, 1865, and $210, his claim for pay allowed'by the acts of March 3, 1865, ch. 81, § 4, 13 Stat. 497, and July 16, 1866, cb. 181, 14 Stat. 94; the first of which acts provides that all officers of volunteers iti commission, at its date, below the rank of brigadier-general, who should continue in the military service to the close of the war, should be entitled to receive,…