Patterson v. United States

The plaintiff, a former lieutenant colonel in the Army of the United States, seeks to recover disability retirement pay from March 9, 1946, when he was released from active duty “not by reason of physical disability.” The plaintiff bases *437his claim on the ground that the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Board for the Correction of Military Records, acted arbitrarily, capriciously and unlawfully when on October 1,1954, the Board denied the plaintiff’s application for correction of his military records to show that at the time of his release from active duty he was sufficiently…