Kearney v. United States

Plaintiff is suing to recover $342.36, which he alleges is due him as increased pay for services during his provisional assignment to the rank of ensign, U. S. Naval Reserve Force, from September 19, 1919, to February 13, 1920. He was assigned the said rank on July 26, 1918, and accepted it on that date. He was not examined by a board of three naval officers nor by a board of medical officers, as required by the act of August 29,1916, 39 Stat. 556, 587, 588. While serving under the said assignment at the naval air station, Pensacola, Fla., he was designated a naval aviator and detailed for…