Slocum v. United States

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This is a suit to recover the benefits of a policy of war risk insurance for $10,000, issued December 1,1917. The policy was later converted, but the plaintiff in this proceeding seeks to recover on the original term policy, alleging that he became totally and permanently disabled in 1918 when that policy was in force.

The plaintiff graduated from the University of Maine and,jreceived a degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in mechanical engineering at Yale. While in New Haven he entered the air service in 1917, and soon after was commissioned First Lieutenant of the Signal…