Legal Opinion

United States v. Brown

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided March 26, 1935No. 2959PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORTON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the United States from verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in an action upon a policy of war risk insurance. The policy was in usual form, conditioned to become payable if the insured should become totally and permanently disabled while it was in force. The only substantial question presented by the appeal is whether the government was entitled to a directed verdict in its favor.

Waterhouse, the insured, enlisted in the United States Army in 1917‘and while in the service took out the policy in suit for $10,000. He was discharged from the army in…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Lumbra v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
  2. Cunningham v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1933
  3. Nalbantian v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1931
  4. United States v. AlvordCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1933
  5. United States v. PerkinsCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1933

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Galloway v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1942
  2. United States v. BeckerCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1936
  3. United States v. WarrenCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1938
  4. United States v. AndersenCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1937
  5. Mattson v. HecklerDistrict Court, D. North Dakota · 1985

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