UNITED STATES v. DRISCOLL

No. 5534.

80 F.2d 59 (1935)

UNITED STATES v. DRISCOLL.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

November 27, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Will G. Beardslee, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, of Washington, D. C., James R. Fleming, U. S. Atty., of Fort Wayne, Ind., Luther M. Swygert, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Hammond, Ind., and J. Gregory Bruce, Atty., Department of Justice, and Thomas E. Walsh, both of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Clarence E. Benadum, of Muncie, Ind., for appellee.

Before SPARKS and ALSCHULER, Circuit Judges, and BALTZELL, District Judge.


SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

By this action appellee sought to recover total, permanent disability benefits under a contract of War Risk Term Insurance. He secured a verdict at the hands of the jury, and the sole question presented is whether he became totally and permanently disabled prior to May 31, 1919.

The evidence discloses that appellee enlisted on March 27, 1918. In May, 1918, he was confined for five weeks in a tuberculosis ward in the Base Hospital at...

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