United States v. Boyett

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment on a verdict of the jury in favor of appellee as administratrix of the estate of Robert Douglas Holton, deceased, in an action on a policy of government insurance. Appellant relies for reversal on the refusal of the court to sustain its motion for a directed verdict.

Deceased contracted lobar pneumonia on January 31, 1934. During that illness an abscess developed on his lung, from which he never fully recovered. After this he was weak, emaciated, nervous, and hysterical ; was constantly coughing and spitting up blood and pus; and suffered…