Case: THE UNITED STATES v. NELSON W. RIDER
Abbreviation: United States v. Rider
Decision Date: 1923-03-19
Docket Number: 
Citation: 58 Ct. Cl. 705
Volume: 58
Reporter: United States Court of Claims Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: THE UNITED STATES v. NELSON W. RIDER.
Judges: 
Pages: 705–705

Head Matter:
THE UNITED STATES v. NELSON W. RIDER.
[57 C. Cls. 323; 261 U.S. 363.]
Judgment was rendered against the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was reversed, and the Supreme Court decided:
The act of June 15, 1917, c. 29, 40 Stat. 188, in making a deficiency appropriation for “ pay at $100 per month for enlisted men in training for officers of the Reserve Corps,” intended merely to abolish the discrimination existing between the pay then allowed enlisted men and that allowed civilians training in like circumstances; it was not a fixing of base pay.
Consequently, a first-class private in the aviation section of the Signal Enlisted Reserve Corps, who, before this act received $33 per month as base pay and 50 per cent additional for flight duty, under the act Of July 18, 1914, c. 186, 38 Stat. 516, was not entitled to any allowance for such duty in addition to the monthly pay of $100.
This provision for $100 pay was not continued beyond June 30, 1918, the limit of the act of June 15, 1917, supra, making the appropriation.

Opinion:
Mr. Chief Justice Taft
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court March 19, 1923.