Gifford v. United States

DAVIS, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought by the plaintiff against the United States for $5,000 insurance on the life of her husband, Roland Craig Gifford, a soldier in the United States Army. He enlisted on January 4, 1918, and on the 1st day of the following May, he made application for $10,000 insurance. In this policy, which was issued in due time, he named his wife, the plaintiff, beneficiary to the extent of $5,000, and his mother, Anna Belle Gifford, for the same amount. On July 13, 1918, he executed a paper purporting to be “an application for insurance” for $5,000, and designated…