Taylor v. United States

Whaley, Ohief Justice,

delivered the opinion of the court:

This action is brought to recover increased rental and subsistence allowances on account of a dependent mother under Sections 4, 5, and 6 of the Act of June 10, 1922, 42 *493Stat. 625, 627, as amended by the Act of May 31, 1924, 43 Stat. 250. Section 4 is the particular one herein involved and reads as follows:

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…