Supreme Court of the United States January 5, 1914, 582 (Pennington v. United States)

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Mr. Chief Justice White

delivered the opinion of the court.

By the judgment appealed from the court below dismissed the petition in which recovery was sought by the appellant, of a stated sum charged to be due him because, of the extra

per diem

ration for each five years’ service allowed by the act of July 5, 1838, § 15, 5 Stat. 256, 258, c.