Davis v. United States

John Davis was a captain in the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment in the Army of the United States, to rank from the 15th day of November, 1776. He continued in service to the end of the war of the Revolution, and thereby became entitled to half pay for life under a resolution of the Continental Congress of October 21,1780, which was as follows:

“ ResolvedThat those officers who shall continue in the service to the end of the war shall be entitled to half pay for life, to commence from the time of their reduction.”

Captain Davis died in 1827, and after his death the administrator of his estate…