United States v. Baker

This is an appeal in a war risk insurance ■case in which the only question involved is the sufficiency of the evidence to carry the «ase to the jury on the issue of total and permanent disability. The premiums paid kept the insurance in force till July 1, 1919. Insured died May 13, 1921, of miliary tuberculosis, or galloping consumption. Although there is evidence of symptoms which might have justified a finding that the insured had incipient tuberculosis at the time of the lapse of the policy, there is no evidence that at that time the disease was of such a character or had reached such a…