Ramsey v. United States

Plaintiff, an officer in the Army of the United States, had active duty service from November 10, 1941, until December 4, 1945. He entered on active duty with the rank of first lieutenant, and was promoted to the rank of major on April 21,1943.

On December 4, 1945, an Army Retiring Board at the Station Hospital, Fresno, California, found that plaintiff was permanently incapacitated for active service by reason of peptic ulcer of the duodenum, but found that such incapacity was not an incident of the service.

Plaintiff was placed on terminal leave on December 7, 1945, and on February 11,1946, he…