Jones v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter's statement of the case: The plaintiff after more than four years’ service as an enlisted man became clerk to the paymaster at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.; March 17, 1913, and has served in that capacity from that date to the present.
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The Reporter's statement of the case: The plaintiff after more than four years’ service as an enlisted man became clerk to the paymaster at Mare Island Navy Yard, Cal.; March 17, 1913, and has served in that capacity from that date to the present. He has been paid at the rate allowed to a warrant officer of like length of service as provided by the acts of 1908 and 1910, but claims in this suit the old Navy pay allowed paymasters’ clerks by Revised, Statutes, section 1556, which, in his case, is higher than that of a warrant officer. These statutes are as follows: Revised Statutes, section…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, Chief Justice
The plaintiff was appointed a paymaster’s clerk in the Navy for duty at Mare Island Navy Yard March 13, 1913. Prior thereto he was an enlisted man in the Navy. He received pay at the rates provided by the act of May 13, 1908, 35 Stat. L., 128, as amended by the act of June 24, 1910, 36 Stat. L., 606, and claims he should have been paid in accordance with section 1556, Revised Statutes, insisting that the proviso in said act of May 13, 1908, continued the provision for pay for the paymaster’s clerk at Mare Island in operation. The question calls for a construction of said acts. Section 1556…
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