United States Court of Claims May 25, 1908, No. 26067 (Schreiner v. United States)

Atkinson, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court:

The single question involved in this suit is whether service as a clerk and messenger in the Quartermaster’s and Subsistence departments of the army is such service as to entitle one to longevity pay under the act of February 24, 1881 (21 Stat. L.