United States v. Gower

LEWIS, Circuit Judge.

Claude Gower, a soldier in the World War, was discharged from service on June 3. 1919, and immediately returned to his father’s home in Oklahoma. He sought employment of different kinds, but after short service in each he in turn quit because he could not continue on account of his physical and mental condition. Early in November, 1919, he was accidentally and fatally shot. While in the military service two policies of term insurance of $5,000.00 each were issued to him on which premiums were paid to July 31, 1919.

His father and mother, appellees here, brought this suit…