Rogel v. United States

BYERS, District Judge.

The present problem is to decide whether a peptic duodenal ulcer which became manifest in libellant Rogel during the second of two voyages which he made as a member of the crew of a merchant ship (Benjamin Bonneville, owned by the United States and operated by Coastwise (Pacific Far East) line as General Agent), out of San Francisco, May 26, 1943, to the South Pacific, entitles him to recover under the disability aspect of War Risk Insurance furnished by the War Shipping Administration.

The issuance of the policy and its terms are not in dispute; the presently material…