Murphy v. County of Westchester

The plaintiff, who had been employed by the defendant, County of Westchester, as a Deputy Sheriff and jail guard, was inducted into the United States Army in April, 1941, pursuant to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (U. S. Code, tit. 50, appendix, § 301 et seq.) Upon the approval by the President in August, 1941, of the Act of Congress (55 *164U. S. Stat. 621) permitting the release of inductees over the age of twenty-eight years from active service and providing for their transfer to the Enlisted Beserve Corps, the plaintiff, being over that age, was transferred to the Enlisted…