Burgoyne v. United States

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Appellant was a soldier in the Regular Army of the United States from February, 1917, to June 24, 1919. After the United States entered the World War, he applied for and was granted a policy of war risk insurance, and paid the premiums thereon until his discharge, the effect of which was to keep the policy -alive until July 31, 1919. In his petition filed in the Supreme Court of the District September, 1927, he alleged that while serving in France he was twice gassed, as a consequence of which he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and became, at the time-of his…