Corrigan v. United States

The broad question presented in this case is whether plaintiff’s employment in the career civil service was terminated in such a manner as to entitle her to an immediate annuity and whether there is any reason why she should be denied the annuity, or the alternative recovery of her salary for part of the period since her separation and an annuity for the remainder of that period.

Plaintiff was separated from her position as a clerk at the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., on July 19, 1949, under the following circumstances. In March of 1949, plaintiff, who had over…