Mrs. Emma G. Barnes v. United States

DANAHER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant in the District Court asserted in detail which we will mention, that certain sums became due from the *656Government to her upon the death of her late husband, a former Government employee. Her claims allegedly were derived under a group life insurance contract which had been entered into between Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the United States Civil Service Commission, and from provisions of the “Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Act of 1954.”1 The Government filed its answer, pleading in essence, that appellant’s husband was not insured at the…