Case Name: Kendrick Newton
Court: United States Court of Claims
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1966-03-14
Citations: 174 Ct. Cl. 1287
Docket Number: No. 314-65
Parties: Kendrick Newton.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Volume: 174
Pages: 1287–1288

Head Matter:
No. 314-65.
March 14, 1966
Kendrick Newton.

Opinion:
Military pay; retired pay (disability); limitation of actions. — Plaintiff who was released from active duty effective November 10,1957, not by reason of physical disability, sues to recover disability retired pay which he claims was arbitrarily denied him by action of the Army Board for Correction of Military Records in 1964. Defendant has moved to dismiss plaintiff's petition filed in 1965 on the ground that the claim is barred by the six-year statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2501, since the petition was filed more than six years from the time plaintiff was denied a retiring board in 1957. Plaintiff's response indicates that the record does not show a written request for or denial of a retiring board in 1957. Defendant relies on an exhibit indicating a verbal request by plaintiff to a doctor at Walter Reid Army Hospital and his verbal statement that plaintiff's records did not warrant an appearance before a retiring board. Upon consideration of defendant's motion and plaintiff's opposition, the court concluded on the basis of Friedman v. United States, 159 Ct. Cl. 1, 24, 310 F. 2d 381 (1962), cert. denied sub nom. Lipp v. United States, 373 U.S. 932 (1963) and Cayce v. United States, 170 Ct. Cl. 402 (1965), that plaintiff's alleged claim is barred by the statute of limitations, 28 U.S.C. § 2501, and on March 14, 1966, it ordered that the petition be dismissed.