Lucas v. United States

Plaintiff, Carl Ellsworth Lucas, a Lieutenant (Junior Grade), Supply Corps, United States Navy, attached to the United States Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, New Jersey, was serving as Officer-in-Charge of the commissary store at the Air Station when the charges hereinafter referred to were preferred against him. The Lakehurst Naval Air Station was located within the territorial limits of the Fourth Naval District at Philadelphia, but was under the command of the Chief of Naval Airship Training and Experimentation at Lakehurst, New Jersey.

*821Prior to April 14, 1948, the Lakehurst Naval Air Station…