Case ID: us-ct-cl_15/html/0619-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Miller", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BOWEN'S CASE.
    (14 C. Cls. R., 162; 100 U. S. R., 508.)
    Charles Bowen, appellee, v. The United States, appellants.
    
      On the defendants’ Appeal.
    
    
      A soldier in 1he Regular Army contributes to the Old Soldiers’ Some, it beinej deducted from his pay. Se is honorably discharged; an invalid xiension is granted to Mm, which is withheld xohen he enters the Some. Se brings his action to recover it.
    
    The court helow decides that the case must he determined hy the language ' of the ¡Revised Statutes; and that they in effect declare that soldiers who contributed while in the Army shall he entitled to the benefits of the Home without relinquishing their pensions. Judgment for the claimant. The defendants appeal.
    The Judgment of the court helow is affirmed, and upon substantially the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of tbe Supreme Court, January 19, 1880.