White v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter s’ statement of the case: , The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Ulysses S. G. White, was on the 9th day of January, in the year 1887, appointed a civil engineer in the Navy from civil life. He remained such civil engineer and was such at the time of the passage of the Navy personnel act of March. 3, 1899. II.
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The Reporter s’ statement of the case: , The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Ulysses S. G. White, was on the 9th day of January, in the year 1887, appointed a civil engineer in the Navy from civil life. He remained such civil engineer and was such at the time of the passage of the Navy personnel act of March. 3, 1899. II. The claimant, by reason of service in the Army, amounting to six years seven months and twenty-one days, previous to his entry into the Navy, reached the maximum pay of his grade, $3,500, May 19, 1885, under Revised Statutes,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The question in this case is the same which was involved in the Royce case, decided adversely to claimant at the present term of court (36 C. Cls. R., 328), and but for the earnestness and ability with, which the claimant’s counsel contends that the court erred in applying the rules it did in the interpretation of the statute, upon which the claimant bases his right to recover, we should let this case follow the Royce case without comment.
The statute referred to is section 13 of the act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. L., 1004, 1007), and reads as follows:
“That after June thirtieth, eighteen…
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