Garcia v. United States

Plaintiff, a first lieutenant in the United States Army, brings this suit to recover rental and subsistence allowances on account of a dependent mother for the period from January 4, 1941, to February 22, 1942, the date of his marriage.

The claim is based upon Section 4 of the Act of June 10,1922,42 S tat.,625, 627, which reads 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…