Case ID: us-ct-cl_29/html/0556-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PHILIP R. ALGER v. THE UNITED STATES.
    [No opinion in C. Cls.;
    151 U. S. R., 362; 152 U. S. R., 384.]
    
      On the defendants Appeal.
    
    Claimant was appointed cadet midshipman September 22,1876; graduated 'June 22, 3882, and promoted midshipman the same day; commissioned ensign June 26, 1884; resigned November 10,1890, and appointed professor of mathematics November 11, 1890. Claimant recovers in the court below $32.87 claimed as longevity pay due him from November 11, 1890, to November 30, inclusive.
    The judgment of the court below is reversed on the ground that under the Act of March 3,1883 (22 Stat. L., 473), a Navy-officer who resigns one day and is appointed to a higher position the next, must have his longevity pay computed as of the lowest grade having graduated pay which he has held since he first entered the service.
   Mr. Justice Gray

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, January 22,1894.