CHERRY v. UNITED STATES

Appeal No. 73-77.

697 F.2d 1043 (1983)

Fred V. CHERRY, Appellant, v. The UNITED STATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

January 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaletah N. Carroll, Fairfax, Va., argued for appellant.

Frances L. Nunn, Washington, D.C., argued for appellee. With her on brief was Asst. Atty. Gen., J. Paul McGrath, Washington, D.C.

Before SMITH, Circuit Judge, COWEN, Senior Circuit Judge, and NIES, Circuit Judge.


EDWARD S. SMITH, Circuit Judge.

While appellant, a colonel in the United States Air Force, was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam from 1965 to 1973, the Air Force paid his entire salary to his then wife. In earlier proceedings before the United States Court of Claims,1 Colonel Cherry successfully argued that the failure of the Air Force to limit those payments upon learning that Mrs. Cherry was living with another man, had had a child...

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