Geer v. United States

The plaintiff, a captain in the United States Marine Corps, brings this suit to recover the rental and subsistence allowances provided by law for an officer having a dependent mother. The claim is based on section 4 of the act of June 10, 1922, 42 Stat. 625, 621:

“ Sec. 4. That the term ‘ dependent ’ as used in the succeeding sections of this act shall include at all times and in all places a lawful wife and unmarried children under twenty-one years of age. It shall also include the mother of the officer provided she is in fact dependent on him for her chief support.”

During the period of the…