
    WILLIAM W. SLAYMAKER v. THE UNITED STATES
    [57 C. Cls. 294; 263 U. S. 94]
    Judgment was rendered against the United States in the court below. On appeal the judgment was affirmed, and the Supreme Court decided:
    The provision of the act of August 29, 1916, that when any member of the Naval Reserve Force severs his connection with “ the service,” without compulsion on the part of the Government, before the expiration of his term of enrollment, the amount credited to him as a “gratuity” for the purchase of a uniform shall be deducted from any money that may be, or may become, due him, was not intended to apply where an officer of that force left it through being commissioned as an officer of the Regular Navy.
   Mr. Justice McKeNNa

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