Gross v. United States

In 1960 plaintiff, a Ship’s Serviceman Second Class in the United States Navy, served as storekeeper of the Special Order Store (i.e. shop for the purchase of foreign goods) *73on the USS Forrestal during that vessel’s Mediterranean cruise. The special order procedure required plaintiff to collect the purchase money and complete an order form in triplicate for each order placed, to give the customer the original of the order form as a receipt, to record each transaction in his order taker’s log, and to turn over the money collected and the retained copies of the order forms to the Sales Officer…