Hormel v. United States

DIMOCK, District Judge.

Plaintiffs sue respectively for $428.77 and $398, alleged to be due them as balances of the 1948 special dividends on their policies of National Service Life Insurance. The Government contends that nothing is due because the amounts sued for are properly withheld from plaintiffs’ dividends since plaintiffs owe the Government the amounts which they now seek to recover. The Government’s claim is that plaintiffs owe the amounts in question because the Government has paid those amounts to the New York Life Insurance Company for their account pursuant to the Governmental…