Continental Illinois Nat. Bank & Trust Co. v. United States

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

In this action on a war risk insurance policy, judgment was for the defendant. It was based on the jury’s finding that the veteran was permanently and totally disabled before he entered the war service, June 1, 1918.

Insured is an unfortunate physical wreck who has long suffered from dementia prae-cox and from what was later described as manic depressive psychosis. The nature and extent of his disability have either varied greatly or he has been the victim of embarrassingly conflicting and wholly irreconcilable findings and" pronouncements by the United States Veteran…