UNITED STATES v. COOPER

No. 11498.

200 F.2d 954 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. COOPER et al.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 20, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Walsh, Washington, D. C., Holmes Baldridge, D. Vance Swann and Russell Chapin, Washington, D. C., David C. Walls and Charles F. Wood, Louisville, Ky., on brief, for appellant.

Waylon Rayburn, Murray, Ky. Nat Ryan Hughes, Murray, Ky., on brief, for appellees.

Before SIMONS, Chief Judge, and HICKS and McALLISTER, Circuit Judges.


SIMONS, Chief Judge.

The United States appeals from a judgment in favor of Myrtle Addie Cooper, the original plaintiff, and A. R. Raspberry, an intervener, for the recovery of death benefits under a policy of National Service Life Insurance granted to Ervin V. L. Raspberry while in the military service of the United States. It contended below, and contends here, that under the applicable statutes there was no right of action by the soldier's beneficiaries and their...

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