Prichard v. United States

Plaintiff sues for retired pay.

Plaintiff appeared before an Army Retiring Board on December 11, 1945. This board found that he was permanently incapacitated for active service on account of deafness, and that his deafness had been aggravated by his service and was, therefore, an incident of his service.

On review, the Surgeon General recommended that the ■case be returned to the Betiring Board for further consideration because a mastoidectomy had been performed on plaintiff in 1923, and thereafter there had been a marked diminution of his hearing lasting until at least 1925. The Burgeon…