Jalbert v. United States

In the opinion of the majority in the instant case it was recognized that plaintiff could not count his midshipman service unless this right was preserved or given by the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942. I agree with this, for under the Act of June 10,1922, only persons in the service on June 30, 1922, could count their midshipman service.

Did the original Pay Readjustment Act of 1942 (56 Stat. 359), give people not in the service on June 30,1922, the right to count their midshipman service ? I think it is plain from the pertinent language of the eleventh paragraph of section 1 that it did not.…