Blackett v. United States

After thirty years of active service, as an enlisted man in the Army, Wilmer Blackett, the plaintiff, holding the rank or grade of master sergeant, made application to the President for retirement on September 25, 1926, through proper channels, under the act of March 2, 1907, 34 Stat. 1217, which reads as follows:

“That when an enlisted man shall have served thirty years either in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, or in all, he shall, upon malcing application to the President, be placed upon the retired list, with seventy-five per centum of the pay and allowances he man/ then be in receipt of,…