Woodard v. United States

This is a suit for disability retirement pay. Plaintiff, a former lieutenant in the Army Air Corps who was demobilized in July 1945, contends that he was permanently incapacitated for active service at the time of that release. The main thrust of his cause of action is that a 1959 decision to the contrary by the Air Force Board for the Correction of Military Records was arbitrary in fact and unsupported by substantial evidence.

Plaintiff asserts as the basis of his claim for retirement two disabilities, both equally the enduring result of a 1943 service-connected head injury: (1) certain…