Jaegle v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of tbe case. This case not being appealable no findings were filed, but the facts will be found in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtNott, J.
The claimant was a musician in the Marine Corps from October 3, 1883, to October 2,1888, when he was honorably discharged. It has been the usage in the Marine Corps for a long time to allow the musicians at their option to take the cost price of a ration instead of being subsisted at the barracks on the rations issued. During the entire period of the claimant’s service he so elected and was so paid. The money paid to him was not the commutation price of the Navy ration, .prescribed by the Revised Statutes, §§ 1580,1581, but was the actual cost price of an inferior ration, which during the…
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