Mayes v. United States

This case depends for its solution upon the construction we-g'ive to the second section of the act of Congress of February ■>, 1853, entitled, “ An act to continue half-pay to certain widows and orphans.” The plaintiff in the court below claims-that under that act his intestate, as the widow of a- revolutionary soldier, was entitled to a pension commencing March 4, 1848. She was allowed a pension only from February 3, 1853,. the date of the passage of the act-, and this suit is an effort to recover what are called arrears, viz, the pension for the time which elapsed between March 4, 1848, and…