Duff v. United States

WHITAKER, Judge.

Plaintiff in his petition alleges that on the day following his commission, when reporting for duty, as a second lieutenant in the Army of the United States, he sustained an injury to his back, and that this injury was aggravated by his Army training, and further by a kick in the back by a prisoner of war, when he was on duty at a Prisoner of War Camp.

On October 23, 1945, plaintiff appeared before an Army Retiring Board, which had been convened to determine plaintiff’s eligibility for retirement for physical disability. This board found that plaintiff’s injury permanently…