Blazek v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tlie case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, James Blazek, was a private and sergeant, Company A, Thirtieth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, one of the regiments of volunteers raised for the suppression of the Philippine insurrection under the act of March 2, 1899 (sec. 12, 30 Stat. L., 979). He served honestly and faithfully beyond the limits of tbe United States in the Philippine Islands, and was discharged…
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The Reporters’ statement of tlie case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, James Blazek, was a private and sergeant, Company A, Thirtieth U. S. Volunteer Infantry, one of the regiments of volunteers raised for the suppression of the Philippine insurrection under the act of March 2, 1899 (sec. 12, 30 Stat. L., 979). He served honestly and faithfully beyond the limits of tbe United States in the Philippine Islands, and was discharged at Manila, February 18, 1901, after the date of the order (December 18, 1900) for the muster out of his regiment, but…
1Opinion of the Court
Peelle, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The only question presented by the reference of this case by the Secretary of the Treasury is, Does the act of March 4, 1907 (34 Stat. L., 1356), apply to claims theretofore disallowed by the accounting officers for one and two months’ extra pay to officers and enlisted men serving in the late war with Spain?
That act reads:
“ Back pay and bounty: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred…
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