BROWN v. UNITED STATES

No. 6956.

65 F.2d 65 (1933)

BROWN v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

May 9, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin Gerlack, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant.

Samuel W. McNabb, U. S. Atty., and Sharpless Walker, Asst. U. S. Atty., and H. C. Veit, Insurance Atty. Veterans' Administration, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for the United States.

Before WILBUR, SAWTELLE, and MACK, Circuit Judges.


MACK, Circuit Judge.

Decedent entered the army in June, 1918; in September he died in France. His $10,000 war risk insurance policy named his estate as beneficiary.

In 1926, in the superior court of Inyo county, Cal., Brown, no relation to decedent, petitioned for probate of the latter's will. The petition alleged decedent had been a resident of Inyo county, and that by a nuncupative will uttered in February, 1918, reduced to writing by a witness thereof in...

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