Taylor v. United States
United States Court of Claims
On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this ease as found by the court: I. The claimant, James S. Taylor, was, on the 29th day of June, 1898, appointed from civil life an acting- assistant surgeon in the temporary service of the Navy under the provisions of the act of Congress approved 1898, May 4 (chap. 234, par. 4, 2 Supp. Id.
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On the Proofs. The Reporters' statement of the case: The following are the facts of this ease as found by the court: I. The claimant, James S. Taylor, was, on the 29th day of June, 1898, appointed from civil life an acting- assistant surgeon in the temporary service of the Navy under the provisions of the act of Congress approved 1898, May 4 (chap. 234, par. 4, 2 Supp. Id. S., Y50), with the relative rank and compensation of assistant surgeon, and accepted the appointment and took the oath on Juty 11, 1898. He served under that appointment until the 18th of November, 1899, when he accepted a…
1Opinion of the CourtPeelle, J.
At the time of the passage of the act of March 3, 1899 (30 Stat. L., 1007), the claimant was an actímg assistant surgeon, with the relative rank and compensation of an assistant surgeon, in the temporary service of the United States Navy, having been appointed thereto from civil life June 29, 1898, under the provisions of the naval appropriation act of May 4, 1898 (30 Stat. L., 369, 380, and 2d Supp. R. S., 750, par. 4), authorizing the President “to appoint for temporary service 25 acting assistant surgeons who shall have the relative rank and compensation of assistant surgeons.”
The claimant…
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