Ackley v. United States

The claimant, a commander in the United States Navy on the retired list since October 25, 1901, seeks to recover the difference between the shore pay, which he received, and the sea pay of his grade from June 5 to September 8,1899, under the following state of facts:

March 17, 1899, the claimant was, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, detached from duty as secretary of the Light-House Board, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., as well as from such other duties as may have been assigned to him, and was ordered to “ report to the commander in chief of the Asiatic Station for the command…