UNITED STATES v. LEWIS

No. 14044.

202 F.2d 102 (1953)

UNITED STATES v. LEWIS.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

February 13, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Walsh, D. Vance Swann, Katherine Kilby, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., E. V. Boagni, Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., Holmes Baldridge, Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Fleniken, U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for appellant.

Charles C. Jaubert and Anatole J. Resweber, Lake Charles, La., for appellee.

Before HOLMES, RUSSELL and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

This suit, instituted by the widow and named beneficiary of a one-time insured, seeking to recover upon a policy of United States Government Life Insurance, resulted in a judgment in her favor. The Government has appealed. It is the kind of case which evokes a Court's sympathy, but in which the judgment can not be upheld. We can find no basis, in logic or in law, upon which to support it.

Carl F. Lewis, the deceased husband of the appellee...

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