Shook ex rel. Estate of Shook v. United States

The plaintiff’s intestate was a seaman on the ill-fated U. S. S. Conestoga, which sailed on March 25, 1921, from San Francisco for Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, en route to Samoa. From that date nothing has been heard of the vessel. Alleging that under the authority of the statute, section 287, Revised Statutes, the Secretary of the Navy fixed the date of the loss of the vessel as of June 30, 1921, and that the Comptroller General on February 7, 1924, decided that the members of the crew of the Gonesfoga should be allowed pay to April 30, 1921, and made settlement accordingly with…