United States v. Salmon

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

J. H. Salmon brought suit as administrator of Van Vleet Salmon to recover on a policy of war risk insurance for $10,000, issued to the decedent. The other heirs of Van Vleet Salmon and of his father, J. H. Salmon, who was beneficiary under the policy, were parties to the suit. Briefly stated, the pleadings allege that Van Vleet Salmon suffered total permanent disability caused by psychosis, due to an organic brain disease, while serving in the United States Navy, and for that reason he was honorably discharged on April 1, 1918. He did not thereafter return to his home in…