UNITED STATES v. PATRYAS

No. 445.

303 U.S. 341 (1938)

UNITED STATES v. PATRYAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 28, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wilbur C. Pickett, with whom Solicitor General Reed, Assistant Solicitor General Bell, and Messrs, Julius C. Martin and W. Marvin Smith were on the brief, for the United States.

Mr. Warren E. Miller, with whom Mr. Stephen A. Cross was on the brief, for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

January 31, 1918, Stanley J. Patryas (respondent), then a soldier, purchased from the government a $10,000 yearly renewable War Risk Insurance contract which he permitted to lapse after his honorable discharge from the Army, July 29, 1919. June 28, 1927, while a patient at a Veterans' Government Hospital, he obtained reinstatement of his War Risk policy and immediately...

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