Brown v. Department of Military Affairs

The present action arises through plaintiff’s complaint in the state Court of Claims for back pay from 1950 to 1967.

PA 1909, No 84, § 45, of the military establishment act, as amended in 1937 by PA 239, MCLA § 32.45 (Stat Ann § 4.637), provides:

“All officers shall receive for each day spent by them in actual service or on duty under the orders of the governor, who is authorized to determine when to place said officers on duty, the pay and allowances, including traveling allowances and all necessary expense for horses for mounted officers and *466increased pay on account of length of service as…