La Forge v. United States

The plaintiff brings this suit to recover the difference between the pay of a sergeant and the pay to which a first sergeant is entitled after retirement.

The facts show that the plaintiff was appointed a sergeant and filed his application for retirement on the ground he had served over thirty years in the Army. After his application for retirement had been sent in, but before it had been approved, he was appointed a first sergeant. The records of the War Department show, and the Secretary of War has *181certified to this court, that' at the time of his retirement the plaintiff was a first…