Crosley v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Regaorters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant entered service in the United States Navy on the 9th day of September, 1889, and from the 1st day of July, 1899, until the 8th day of September, 1900, was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, and an aid to Rear-Admiral J. C. Watson; Rear-Admiral Watson was at that time one of the nine higher numbers of the grade of rear-admiral, and was…
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On the Proofs. The Regaorters’ statement of the case: The following are the facts of this case as found by the court: I. The claimant entered service in the United States Navy on the 9th day of September, 1889, and from the 1st day of July, 1899, until the 8th day of September, 1900, was a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, and an aid to Rear-Admiral J. C. Watson; Rear-Admiral Watson was at that time one of the nine higher numbers of the grade of rear-admiral, and was entitled under section 1166 of the Revised Statutes to rank with a major-general in the United States Army. II. During…
1Opinion of the CourtHowry, J.
Plaintiff’s claim is for extra pay on account of service rendered as lieutenant (junior grade) in the Navy from July 1, 1899, to September 8, 1900, as an aid to a rear-admiral. He claims the pay granted by section 1261 of the Revised Statutes given to an aid serving as such to a major-general in the Army', and next the mounted pay provided by paragraph 1301 of the Army Regulations.
The act of March 3, 1899 (sec. 13, 2 Supp. R. S., 972; 30 Stat. L., 1007),. provides as follows:
“That after June 30, 1899, commissioned officers of the line of the Navy and of the Medical and Pay Corps shall *84receive…
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