Legal Opinion
United States v. Godfrey
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 11, 1931No. 2519PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
The single question presented by this appeal is whether the District Court erred in accepting the verdict of the jury, that Harry G. Godfrey was permanently and totally disabled prior to July 31, 1919, when his policy lapsed. Godfrey enlisted April 18, 1918; at the front, in France, shortly before the Armistice (November 11, 1918), he had an attack of influenza, and received a dose of old chlorine gas in a cellar hole. He then started to cough, and continued to cough increasingly, until he died of tuberculosis on April 23, 1930, after the trial, but before the judgment…
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