United States v. Hall

MORTON, Circuit Judge.

The record in this case has now been corrected and it has been argued and submitted on the .merits. It is an action on a policy of war risk insurance. In the District Court a verdict was returned for the plaintiff; and the United States has appealed. We shall refer to the parties, plaintiff and defendant, as they appeared in the trial court. Only one question is presented, whether on all the evidence the United. States was entitled to a directed verdict.

Hall enlisted in the United States Army in 1918 and took out war risk insurance. He was discharged on March 7, 1919,…