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UNITED STATES v. TOWERY

No. 360.

306 U.S. 324 (1939)

UNITED STATES v. TOWERY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 27, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Edward H.S. Martin for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case turns upon the proper construction of the limitation provision of § 19 of the World War Veterans Act of 1924, as amended.1

The respondent brought an action in the District Court for Northern Illinois in his own right and as administrator of Robert C. Towery, deceased, upon claims on two war risk insurance term policies issued to the decedent while in the military...

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