Amsden v. United States

The plaintiff, Mondeau, is plaintiff No. 19 in the above-entitled case. The word “plaintiff” as used hereinafter will apply only to him. He seeks to recover retired pay denied him by the erroneous application to him of section 212 of the Economy Act of 1932, as amended, 47 Stat. 406, 5 T7.S.C. (1952 ed.) § 59a. That Act forbade the payment, at the same time, of civilian Government pay, and military service retired pay, to retired officers, to the extent that the sum of the two kinds of pay exceeded $3,000. The plaintiff is on the retired list of the Navy as a chief warrant officer, he having…