Case ID: us-ct-cl_23/html/0493-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Harlan", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWARD C. MARSHALL AND ROBERT CHAPIN, Administrators of Elisha G. Marshall, deceased, v. THE UNITED STATES.
    (20 C. Cls. R., 370; 124 U. S. R., 391.)
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.
    
    Tlie case presents the question-whether a colonel retired shall receive three-fourths of a colonel’s pay increased by 40 .per cent, (his longevity allowance), or whether he shall receive three-fourths of the maximum, $4,500, to which he was limited when retired.
    Tbe .court below decides:
    It is now well settled that the pay of a retired officer is 75 per cent, of the sum which he was entitled to receive upon the active list at the . time of retirement.
    Tbe decision of tbe court below is affirmed on tbe same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Harlan

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Supreme Court, January 23, 1888.