O'Brien v. United States

The plaintiff sues for back pay for a period of more than five years, the time which intervened between his discharge and his reinstatement as a civilian employee of the Department of the Navy. The plaintiff is a war veteran and is therefore entitled to the rights and privileges accorded to veterans by Section 14 of the Veterans’ Preference Act of 1944, 5 U. S. C. 863, as well as to those of non-veteran classified civil servants of the United States.

The plaintiff had been employed by the Navy from 1909 to 1945 except for some two years when he was in the armed services. He worked at the…