Shrader v. United States

HICKS, Chief Judge.

Libellant-appellant, Mattie L. Shrader, mother of James Leon Shrader, and the beneficiary of a Second Seaman’s War Risk policy insuring her son, seeks to recover the sum of $5,000 by reason of the death of the insured directly and proximately caused by risks of war and warlike operations. The district court, sitting without the intervention of a jury, dismissed the li'bel; hence this appeal.

James Leon Shrader was the owner of the policy which was in force at the time of his death. On December 16, 1945, he was a member of the crew of the S. S. Robert Treat, which was being…