Peiffer v. United States

This is a suit by an enlisted man in the Navy for pay and allowances between the date of the expiration of his term of enlistment, December 16,1939, and the date he reenlisted, December 28, 1939, during which time he was detained by the Navy in the Naval Hospital at Washington, D. C., for examination and treatment.

On December 14, 1939 he reported for physical examination preliminary to being discharged from his then current term of enlistment. In the opinion of the examining physicians at that time, he was suffering with a disease known as glycosuria, but he was sent to the Naval Hospital at…