Swartz v. United States

*233MEMORANDUM BY THJ5. COURT

The act of December 17, 1919, 41 Stat. 367, provides for the payment of a gratuity to the widow, or children or other dependent “ of any officer or enlisted man on the active list of the Regular Army, or on the retired list when on active duty,” the authorized payment to be made by the Quartermaster General of the Army immediately upon official notification of the death from wounds or disease, not the result of his own misconduct, of such officer or enlisted men. Section 2 of the act, with the evident purpose of limiting and defining the application of the first…