UNITED STATES v. HUDDLESTON

No. 5561.

81 F.2d 593 (1936)

UNITED STATES v. HUDDLESTON.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

February 13, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Roe, U. S. Atty., of Vandalia, Ill., Will G. Beardslee, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, of Washington, D. C., Wilbur C. Pickett, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., Thomas E. Walsh, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., Joseph A. Troy, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., of East St. Louis, Ill., and W. Clifton Stone, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Frank C. Wade, of Terre Haute, Ind. (Samuel V. Jinkins, of Danville, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and ALSCHULER, Circuit Judges.


ALSCHULER, Circuit Judge.

The United States appeals from a judgment in favor of claimant Huddleston in an action on his war risk insurance contracts, aggregating $10,000, predicated upon the allegation of his total permanent disability occurring while the insurance was in force. The jury found that claimant was permanently and totally disabled May 1, 1919.

October 30, 1918, while under fire in France, claimant was gassed and, becoming unconscious, was immediately...

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