UNITED STATES v. DUNAWAY

Nos. 6714, 6715, 6823.

64 F.2d 535 (1933)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. John McDowell DUNAWAY, Appellee. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Lizzie Virginia PRICE, a Married Woman, Joined by her Husband, Sebreen B. Price, and Edith Mae Price Johnson, as Administratrix of the Estate of Charles Erastus Price, deceased, Appellees. UNITED STATES of America, Appellant, v. Rufus CORBIN, Appellee.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 13, 1933.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nos. 6714, 6715:

Geo. P. Wentworth, U. S. Atty., Geo. Earl Hoffman and Wm. Logan Hill, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Pensacola, Fla., George W. Burke, Atty., Veterans' Administration, of Jacksonville, Fla., and W. C. Pickett, Atty., Veterans' Administration, of Washington, D. C.

Philip D. Beall, of Pensacola, Fla., for appellees.

No. 6823:

Geo. P. Wentworth, U. S. Atty., Geo. Earl Hoffman and Wm. Logan Hill, Asst. U. S. Attys., all of Pensacola, Fla., and W. C. Pickett, Atty., Veterans' Administration, of Washington, D. C.

Philip D. Beall, of Pensacola, Fla., for appellee.

Before BRYAN, FOSTER and WALKER, Circuit Judges.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

These three cases are appeals from judgments awarding recoveries on policies of war risk insurance. In each case a motion of defendant for a directed verdict was overruled, and error is assigned thereto. They may be conveniently disposed of in one opinion.

It would serve no good purpose to review the evidence. It is sufficient to say that in our opinion the plaintiffs have failed to support the burden of proving that the soldiers became...

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