Caddington v. United States

JONES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover the difference between 75 percent of the pay of a lieutenant colonel with over 24 years of service, which he has been receiving, and 75 percent of the pay of a colonel with over 24 years of service, to which he claims he is entitled, from September 17, 1945, the date of his retirement from the Army for physical disability. There is no dispute as to any material fact.

After 20 years of service in the Maryland National Guard and the National Guard of the United States, plaintiff was ordered into Federal service early in 1941 in the grade of captain,…