Jones v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The plaintiff after more than four years’ service as an enlisted man became clerk to the paymaster at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.; March 17, 1913, and has served in that capacity from that date to the present.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The plaintiff after more than four years’ service as an enlisted man became clerk to the paymaster at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.; March 17, 1913, and has served in that capacity from that date to the present. He has been paid at the rate allowed to a warrant officer of like length of service as provided by the acts of 1908 and 1910, but claims in this suit the old Navy pay allowed paymasters’ clerks by Revised, Statutes, section 1556, which, in his case, is higher than that of a warrant officer. These statutes are as follows: Revised Statutes, section…
1DissentBarNey, Judge
The plaintiff, after more than four years’ service as an enlisted man, became clerk to the paymaster at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal., March 17, 1913, and has served in that capacity from that date to the present.
He has been paid at the rate allowed to a warrant officer of like length of service, as provided by the acts of 1908 and 1910, but claims in this suit the old Navy pay allowed paymasters’ clerks by Revised Statutes, section 1556, which, *359in his case, is higher than that of a warrant officer. These statutes are as follows:
Revised Statutes, section 1556:
“ The commissioned officers and…
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