Reis v. United States

Plaintiff, an officer in the United States Marine Corps, brings this suit to recover rental and subsistence allowances *38to which, he alleges he is entitled on account of a dependent mother.

The claim is based upon Section 4 of the Act of June 10, 1922, 42 Stat. 625, 627, which reads as follows:

Sec. 4. 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 officer provided she is in fact dependent on him for her chief support.

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