AMERICAN NAT. BANK & TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 8046.

134 F.2d 674 (1943)

AMERICAN NAT. BANK & TRUST CO. OF CHICAGO, ILL., et al., v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided February 15, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Warren E. Miller, of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Keith L. Seegmiller, Attorney, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, Julius C. Martin, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, and James B. Costello and Wilbur C. Pickett, Attorneys, Department of Justice, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for the United States of America.

Mr. John L. Fowler, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief for appellees other than the United States of America.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and VINSON and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.

The issues relate to the amount and disposition of the benefits of a revived policy of war risk yearly renewable term insurance, issued originally in 1918 to Alcee Peter Seldon, pursuant to the War Risk Insurance Act of October 6, 1917.1 The claimants are the guardian of the insured's minor children, the administrator of his estate, the administrator of his widow's estate, and his sister, Eulalie Gougis, who...

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