Meredith v. United States

Plaintiff, a former Supply Corps Officer, United States Naval Reserve, brings this action to recover the sum of $4,039.43, which represents the amount of pay and allowances withheld and applied in partial satisfaction of an alleged indebtedness to the United States resulting from losses alleged to exist after investigation of his accounts as Officer-in-Charge at the United States Naval Commissary Store, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California.

Plaintiff, a citizen of the United States, a resident of the State of California, on February 15, 1943, entered on active duty in the United…