United States v. Balance

GRONER, Associate Justice.

This is a war risk insurance case. 38 US CA § 421 et seq. Plaintiff obtained a verdict and judgment in the court below, and the government appeals. There are 39 assignments of error, 18 of which relate to the admission in evidence of War Department records and reports of physical examinations made by physicians and of hospitalization of plaintiff from time to time over a period of 12 or 13 years.

There are between five and-six hundred war risk insurance eases pending and untried in the Supreme Court of the District. That court, in order to expedite trial of these…