Rockwell v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The-¡Reporters' statement of the ease: The following are the facts.of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was commissioned and served in the regular and volunteer Navy as follows: (1) Acting .master in volunteer Navy from July 15, 1862, to December 16, 1862. (2) Lieutenant from December 16. 1862, to April 29, I860. (3) Lieutenant-commander from April 29, 1865, to December 8, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.
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The-¡Reporters' statement of the ease: The following are the facts.of this case as found by the court: ■ I. The claimant was commissioned and served in the regular and volunteer Navy as follows: (1) Acting .master in volunteer Navy from July 15, 1862, to December 16, 1862. (2) Lieutenant from December 16. 1862, to April 29, I860. (3) Lieutenant-commander from April 29, 1865, to December 8, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. (4) Acting master from November 19, 1866, to March 12, 1868. (5) Master in regular Navy from March 12, 1868, to December 18, 1868. (6) Lieutenant from December…
1Opinion of the Court
Richardson, Cli. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
The claimant, an officer of the Navy, brings this action to recover the additional pay to which he alleges that he is entitled under the following provisions of the Act of March 3,1883, chapter 97 (22 Stat. L., 473):
“And all officers of the Nary shall be credited with the actual time they may have served as officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer Army or Navy, or both, and shall receive all the benefits of such actual service in all respects in the same manner as if all said service had been continuous and in the regular Navy…
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