Demmon v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Appellant is another of that lengthening procession of suitors on war risk policies,1 who, claiming that total and permanent disability existed many years ago while the policies were in force by payment of premiums, find themselves unable to show more than partial disability, or, if now totally and permanently disabled, unable to show that they were so then.

Appellant has twice tried his case. Once a jury found for him, but that verdict was set aside. On this trial the district judge did not invite the jury’s verdict; he directed it for defendant. Earnestly insisting…