Burak v. United States

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

In 1917 and while appellant was in the United States military service, he was insured under a war risk insurance policy. By a United States District Court judgment entered November 2nd, 1927, he was adjudged “totally and permanently disabled” from and after May, 1918, and pursuant thereto a lump sum of money was paid him and thereafter he received monthly installments of money under the terms of the policy until February, 1936. On such date the government ceased such payments because it held that appellant was no longer “totally and permanently disabled”. Thereafter…