Frnka v. United States

The plaintiff sues the Government for breach of contract. In July 1944 she was employed by the then War Department in the San Antonio Air Service Command at Kelly Field, Texas, as a Junior Aircraft Sheet Metal Worker at an annual salary of $1,920. The War Department was recruiting workers to go to Hickam Field, Hawaii, and was offering higher pay for that overseas service. The plaintiff made a written contract with the department to work at an overseas installation as an Aircraft Sheet Metal Worker for the duration of the war and six months thereafter at an annual salary of $2,750, the…