Tall v. United States

Plaintiff bases his right to recover the difference between the retired pay of a lieutenant, junior grade, and that of an ensign upon his claim that the act of May 24, 1928, 45 Stat. 735, gives him 75 percent of the active-duty pay of a lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy, which rank he held in the Naval Reserve on January 3, 1926, when discharged from his commissioned service in such Naval Reserve Force,, and that this was the only discharge ever received by him.

The defendant contends that the Veterans’ Bureau correctly placed plaintiff on the emergency officers’ retired list of the Navy…