Bancroft v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the ease as found by the court: I. The claimant, Arthur John Bancroft, was enrolled in the United States Marine Corps Reserve July 15, 1918, as a second lieutenant, provisional, upon completing the course of instruction at the Marine Officers’ Training Camp, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, and reported for active duty on the same date.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The following are the facts of the ease as found by the court: I. The claimant, Arthur John Bancroft, was enrolled in the United States Marine Corps Reserve July 15, 1918, as a second lieutenant, provisional, upon completing the course of instruction at the Marine Officers’ Training Camp, Marine Barracks, Quantico, Virginia, and reported for active duty on the same date. He was disenrolled from the Marine Corps Reserve October 22, 1918, in order to accept an appointment as temporary second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, having been temporarily appointed…
1Opinion of the CourtDowney, Judge
The action is for the recovery of a uniform gratuity of $150.00 alleged to be due the plaintiff as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps Beserve and the question for decision arises from the following facts:
The plaintiff, in 191$, was one of a number of enlisted men in attendance at a Marine Officers’ Training Camp, about to graduate, and upon graduation eligible to temporary appointment as second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Such appointments could only be made subject to confirmation by the Senate necessarily entailing some delay.
*221To obviate this delay and give the…
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