Hillery v. Moore

(sitting-by designation).

This is a complaint by 69 civil service-status, or career, employees at the United. State Naval Shipyard located in Kittery,. Maine, generally known as the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, against the Naval Officer in command of the Yard. Although it is not alleged in the complaint, that all of the. plaintiffs are preference employees (veterans) with efficiency ratings of “good” or better, federal jurisdiction is asserted to rest upon the- Veterans’" Preference Act, so-called, of June 27,. *6011944, as amended, 5 U.S.C.A. § 851 et ■seq., and an amount in controversy,…