“ We think the words 'officers or enlisted men in the regular or volunteer army or navy, or both,' was intended to include all men regularly in service in the army or navy, and that the expression 'officers or enlisted men' is not to be construed distributively as requiring that a person should be an enlisted man, or an officer nominated and appointed by the president, or by the head of a department, but that it was meant to include all men in service, either by enlistment or regular appointment in the army or navy. ”

“ In the opinion of the chief justice, rendered in the court of claims, the single issue raised is the question of law whether or not a pay-master's clerk is an officer of the navy within the meaning of said act. ”