Haas v. United States

The plaintiff, a lieutenant commander on the retired list of the Navy, sues herein to recover his pay as such from February 22, 1921, to July 27, 1921. The case is restricted to a single issue, and while necessary to state the facts, it in no-*442Avise iirvobves a judicial determination as to whether under them the action taken by the Navy Department was justified. The parties concede the correctness of the above statement and present the case' under the one contention, i. e., does jurisdiction reside in a succeeding Secretary of the Navy to reopen and allow a claim for pay which his predecessor…