King v. United States

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in error was plaintiff below and will be so called here. She is the widow of one John King and the beneficiary designated in his war risk insurance policy. He entered the army in September, 1918, and died in the succeeding January. For something over three years thereafter she received from the government the monthly installments of $57.50 each, payable under the policy, but in 1922 it notified her that in its view she had forfeited her rights under it by-open and notorious illicit cohabitation with one Holt. Thereafter the payments were made to the mother of…