Sullivan v. United States

The plaintiff, a lieutenant (junior grade) of the United States Navy, brings this suit to recover increased rental and *590subsistence allowances because of a dependent mother from May 8, 1928,- to January 1, 1931. The claim is based on section 4 of the act of June 10, 1922 (42 Stat. 625, 627), which provides as follows:

“Sec. 4. That the term ‘dependent’ as used in the succeeding sections of this act shall include at all times and in all places a lawful wife and unmarried children under twenty-one years of age. It shall also include the mother of the officer provided she is in fact dependent on…