JONES v. UNITED STATES

No. 11534.

112 F.2d 282 (1940)

JONES v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

June 5, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. A. Tellier, of Little Rock, Ark., for appellant.

Thomas E. Walsh, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Sam Rorex, U. S. Atty., and George W. Hendricks, Atty., Department of Justice, both of Little Rock, Ark., Julius C. Martin, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, Wilbur C. Pickett, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen., and Fendall Marbury, Sp. Attorney, Department of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before GARDNER and WOODROUGH, Circuit Judges, and MOORE, District Judge.


MOORE, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought suit against the United States to recover on four twenty-year payment war risk insurance policies issued on the life of her husband, Grady Furth Jones, a soldier in the World War. Plaintiff, beneficiary in the policies, sued in her capacity as executrix and as beneficiary, for the reason that part of the benefits under the policies accrued during the life of the insured.

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