Witt v. United States

*480MEMORANDUM BY THE COURT.

This case is controlled by the cases of Price v. United States, 55 C. Cls. 499, and Bcmóroft v. United States, 56 C. Cls. 218, affirmed by the Supreme Court, 260 U. S. 706.

The facts show that the plaintiff was disenrolled from the Marine Corps Reserve on March 12, 1919, in order to accept an appointment as temporary second lieutenant in the Marine Corps.

The primary purpose of the enrollment of the plaintiff in the Marine Corps Reserve, as stated in the opinion of the court in the Bancroft case, supra, was “ to obviate this delay and give the Government the benefit of…