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

No. 8610.

142 F.2d 571 (1944)

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

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided May 8, 1944.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Mr. Keith L. Seegmiller, Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Francis M. Shea, Assistant Attorney General and Lester P. Schoene, Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, Wilbur C. Pickett, Assistant Director, Bureau of War Risk Litigation, and Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice and EDGERTON and ARNOLD, Associate Justices.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellant, conservator of an incompetent veteran's estate, sued on a policy of war risk term insurance. The District Court gave summary judgment for appellee.

Appellant had previously sued on the same policy in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. That suit was "dismissed for want of prosecution" on January 31, 1940.1 The present suit was filed in the District of Columbia...

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