Collins v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found bj^ the court: I. The claimant, John B. Collins, now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, was, while a lieutenant in the Navy, attached to and served upon the U. S. S. Mohican from May 28, 1893, to March 26, 1895. During all that time he was in receipt of the sea pay of a lieutenant after five years of service, as provided by section 1556 of the Revised Statutes, viz, $2,600, with the…
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The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of the case as found bj^ the court: I. The claimant, John B. Collins, now a lieutenant commander in the Navy, was, while a lieutenant in the Navy, attached to and served upon the U. S. S. Mohican from May 28, 1893, to March 26, 1895. During all that time he was in receipt of the sea pay of a lieutenant after five years of service, as provided by section 1556 of the Revised Statutes, viz, $2,600, with the exception of the period stated in the next succeeding finding. II. On the 9th day of October, in the year 1894, he was…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
The claimant, a lieutenant-commander in the United States Navy, was attached to and served upon the U. S. S. Mohican, from May 23, 1893, to March 26, 1895, during which time he was paid the sea paj' of his grade after five years’ service, as provided by the Revised Statutes, section 1556, being $2,600 per annum, except during the period from October 10 to November 14, 1894, when he was by proper orders sent to the naval hospital at Mare Island, Cal., on account of gunshot wound received in the line of duty.
No order was issued detaching him from the Mohican while thus confined in the hospital,…
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