UNITED STATES v. COWARD

No. 3800.

76 F.2d 875 (1935)

UNITED STATES v. COWARD.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 13, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Walsh, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., and S. Henry Edmunds, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., of Charleston, S. C. (Claud N. Sapp, U. S. Atty., of Columbia, S. C., Will G. Beardslee, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, of Washington, D. C., and Wilbur C. Pickett, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., on the brief), for the United States.

John W. Crews, of Columbia, S. C. (Furman R. Gressette, of Columbia, S. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal in a war risk insurance case. Plaintiff now is unquestionably suffering from paralysis agitans and is totally and permanently disabled. There is a question as to whether the disease began while the policy was in force, but we agree with the judge below that the evidence of the plaintiff was sufficient to take the case to the jury as to this. Insured had some sort of seizure in March, 1919, while the policy was in force; and, while the...

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