Plummer v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. The facts, which involve the construction of the provisions of acts of Congress relating to pay of acting assistant surgeons in the Navy, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
This appeal is from a judgment of the Court of Claims denying the right to recover from the United States an alleged' balance of compensation claimed to be due for services rendered as an acting assistant surgeon, at the Naval Station, Key West, Florida, from July 1, 1903, to July 1,1909.
By an act approved May 4, 1898, 30 Stat. 369, 380, c. 234, the President was authorized “to appoint for temporary service twenty-five acting assistant surgeons, who shall have the relative rank and compensation of assistant surgeons. When the act of 1898 was passed the pay of officers in the naval service was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- United States v. TylerSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- United States v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Taylor v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1903
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