Hoppock v. United States

Plaintiff sues for disability retirement pay denied bim by the Navy. His petition, filed on February 1,1962, shows *89that he served as a naval reserve officer on active duty from January 5,1942 to November 25,1945, when he was released as a lieutenant commander (not for physical disability). As a result, he alleges, of his arduous experiences in combat in the Pacific in 1943-1944, he suffered a mental and emotional collapse and had to be transferred to the continental United States for treatment. After a period of hospitalization and some five or six months of further duty he was separated. He…