Case ID: us-ct-cl_58/html/0704-02.html
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Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice McKeNNA", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE UNITED STATES v. WILL J. ALLEN.
    [56 C. Cls. 265; 261 U.S. 317.]
    Judgment was rendered against the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    Under the act of May 22, 1917, c. 20, 40 Stat. 84, providing that, during the war, warrant and petty officers and enlisted men of the Coast Guard should receive the same rates of pay as those prescribed for corresponding grades or ratings and length of service in the Navy, a yeoman of the Coast Guard, whose duties and qualifications in fact corresponded to those of a chief yeoman in the Navy, was entitled to the greater pay of the latter position, notwithstanding an order of the Secretary of the Navy mating a different classification.
   Mr. Justice McKeNNA

delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 12, 1923.