Cotter v. United States

WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit brought to recover from the United States the proceeds of a policy in the amount of $10,000 issued under the provisions of the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, 38 U.S.C.A. §§ 801-818, on the life of plaintiff’s husband who was killed in the military service of his country.

The material facts are substantially as follows: The insured, Richard Francis

Cotter, an enlisted man in the Marine Corps, was killed in the battle of Iwo Jima on March 16th, 1945. Until he was sixteen years old he had lived with his family in Cumberland, Maryland.…