Holdridge v. United States

The plaintiff, who was a private in Company M, 2d TJ. S. Infantry, stationed at Fort Shatter, Hawaiian Islands, sues for extra-duty pay for the period from August 18, 1913, to April 30, 1914, inclusive. During this period he, with his entire company and some sixty other men, were engaged in constructing eight barracks for the accommodation of two battalions of four companies each, with mess halls, officers’ quarters, etc., and in addition thereto a sewer and roads.

Two questions are for determination: First, whether the duty was in fact “ extra duty,” and second, whether, if extra duty, there…