White v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporter s’ statement of the case: , The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Ulysses S. G. White, was on the 9th day of January, in the year 1887, appointed a civil engineer in the Navy from civil life. He remained such civil engineer and was such at the time of the passage of the Navy personnel act of March. 3, 1899. II.
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The Reporter s’ statement of the case: , The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, Ulysses S. G. White, was on the 9th day of January, in the year 1887, appointed a civil engineer in the Navy from civil life. He remained such civil engineer and was such at the time of the passage of the Navy personnel act of March. 3, 1899. II. The claimant, by reason of service in the Army, amounting to six years seven months and twenty-one days, previous to his entry into the Navy, reached the maximum pay of his grade, $3,500, May 19, 1885, under Revised Statutes,…
1DissentWeldoN, J.
I do not concur in the result reached by the court in this case, and express the reasons of my dissent briefly:
It is said in the second clause of Finding II that “if he were, upon the date of his appointment, credited, for computing his pay, with five years’ service, and entitled to be paid from that date, he would receive pay at the following-rates:
Three years and 130 days, at §2,700 per annum.§10,068.49
Five years, at §3,500 per annum. 17,500.00
Total. 27,568.49
or S3,506.85 more than he previously received.”
The statute upon which the claimant bases his right to recover, and which is quoted at…
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