Williams v. United States

SIBLEY, District Judge.

This case, being a claim against the United States for a sum not exceeding $10,000, was tried before the judge, without a jury. I find the material facts to be as follows:

On October 2, 1918, Edward Williams obtained a certificate of war risk insurance for $10,000, with his father, the petitioner, named as beneficiary; that certificate reciting upon its face that:

“Subject to the payment of the premiums required, this insurance is granted under the authority of an act amending ‘An act entitled “An act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Bisk Insurance in the…