Seifert v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter’s statement of the case: The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. It is difficult to see any reasonable ground for the view that a paymaster’s clerk who was at the earliest moment examined for promotion to the grade of chief pay clerk was not “ advanced in grade or rank pursuant to law,” but that his appointment as a chief pay clerk was an original entry into the service.
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The Reporter’s statement of the case: The facts of the case are sufficiently set forth in the opinion of the court. It is difficult to see any reasonable ground for the view that a paymaster’s clerk who was at the earliest moment examined for promotion to the grade of chief pay clerk was not “ advanced in grade or rank pursuant to law,” but that his appointment as a chief pay clerk was an original entry into the service. He should have had his promotion, and with it his pay from an even earlier date — that of the passage of the act, March 3, 1915. The promotion of this officer, as well as of…
1Opinion of the CourtCampbell, Chief Justice
The plaintiff was a paymaster’s clerk in the Navy at the time of the enactment of the act of March 3, 1915, 38 Stats., 942. On the 3d day of March, 1915, he had had more than six years’ service as paymaster’s clerk. In June, 1915, he was ordered for the examination prescribed by said act, which provides that no person should be “ appointed a chief pay clerk, pay clerk, or acting pay clerk under any provision contained in this act until his physical, mental, and professional qualifications have been satisfactorily established by examination before a board of examining officers ” selected as…
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