Prentiss v. United States

In our decision of April 7,1953, we concluded that plain*522tiff was entitled to a Civil Service retirement annuity computed in accordance with the law as it existed at the time of his separation in 1946, since the more generous provisions of the Act of February 28,1948 (62 Stat. 53), were specifically denied persons in plaintiff’s category under the language of Section 8 of that Act. We then held that the law in effect when plaintiff was separated from the service in 1946 was the Act of May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 468), as amended by the Act of January 24, 1942 (56 Stat. 13), and that under Section 5…