Howard v. United States

YANKWICH, District Judge.

The plaintiff has brought suit to recover upon a $5,000 war risk insurance policy, issued to her former husband, Charles Angelo Navone, on May 1, 1922, in which she is named as beneficiary and which was in full force on March 1, 1930.

On that day, Navone disappeared, while a passenger on a Lake Washington ferry, under circumstances which indicated suicide. His body was never found.

Recovery is sought on the presumption of death at the expiration of seven years.

Claim was duly made at the expiration of this period and denied on October 31, 1938. The amount sought to be…