Baskins v. United States

LUMPKIN, District Judge.

The complaint herein alleges in substance that the plaintiff, J. C. Baskins, after having passed the required civil service examination, was commissioned in the Bureau of Prisons as penal and correction guard on March 1, 1928, with an annual salary of $1,500; that thereafter and until September 3, 1935, he was em*519ployed at various institutions of the United States and was engaged in the discharge of duties incidental and required of him as such officer until April 1, 1930, when he was promoted and his salary increased to $1,860 per annum, and thereafter on November 1,…