Baxter v. United States

The plaintiff brought this action under the court’s general jurisdiction to recover pay due him as a result of his alleged illegal discharge from the Federal service. It has now come before the court on the merits. [See 122 C. Cls. 632.]

Plaintiff, an honorably discharged veteran of World War I, has been a member of the New York bar since 1932. During 1944 and the early months of 1945 he was working as a P-5 attorney in the legal section of the Madison Square Area office of the Manhattan District, which was the unit in the War Department charged with the development of the atomic bomb. In this…