Butler v. United States

This is* a suit by a former employee of the Federal Theatre Project of the Works Progress Administration to collect an amount alleged to be due him as compensation for the annual leave to which he was entitled and which he never received.

He sues under the Act of March 14, 1936 (49 Stat. 1161), which reads in pertinent part as follows:

* * * all civilian officers and employees of the United States wherever stationed and of the government of the District of Columbia, regardless of their tenure, in addition to any accrued leave, shall be entitled to twenty-six days’ annual leave with pay each…