Case ID: us-ct-cl_17/html/0437-01.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

(16 C. Cls. R., 223; 105 U. S. R., 244.)
    Richard W. Tyler, appellant, v. The United States, appellees.
    
      On the claimant’s Appeal.
    
    
      The claimant enters the Army as an enlisted man December, 1861; is appointed lieutenant of infantry May, 1864; is retired as captain December, 1870. The retired pay allowed to Mm is three-fourths of thepay of a captain who has been five years in service. Mo increase of longevity pay subsequent to retirement is allowed, although he has been continuously in service on the active and retired list as soldier and officer more than fifteen years.
    
    Tlie court below decides: (1) That thepay of an officer on the retired list should he computed precisely the same as that of an officer on the active list; (2) That the method of computing longevity pay prescribed by Rev. Stats., § 1262, should be by taking one-tenth of the “current yearly pay.”
    The judgment of the court below is affirmed upon the same grounds.
   Mr. Justice Miller

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court, March 13, 1882.