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ROBERTS v. UNITED STATES

No. 5508.

157 F.2d 906 (1946)

ROBERTS v. UNITED STATES et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

November 11, 1946.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell T. Bradford, of Norfolk, Va. (Wailes Hank, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellant Margaret Elizabeth Roberts.

Fendall Marbury, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C. (Harry H. Holt, Jr., U. S. Atty., Llewellyn S. Richardson, Asst. U. S. Atty., and John F. Sonnett, Asst. Atty. Gen., both of Washington, D. C., Searcy L. Johnson, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., and D. Vance Swann, Atty., Department of Justice, of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

James G. Martin, of Roanoke, Va. (Fred J. Dean, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellee Joe Johnson Roberts.

Before PARKER, SOPER, and DOBIE, Circuit Judges.

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to recover from the United States the proceeds of a National Service Life Insurance policy in the amount of $10,000 on the life of Joe William Roberts, an officer in the Air Corps of the United States Navy who lost his life on active duty in the late war on January 10, 1944. The insurance was claimed by Margaret Elizabeth Roberts, the widow of the insured, and also by Joseph Johnson Roberts, his father, and the latter, as...

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