United States v. Coward

This is an appeal in a war risk insurance case. Plaintiff now is unquestionably suffering from paralysis agitans and is totally and permanently disabled. There is a question as to whether the disease began while the policy was in force, but we agree with the judge below that the evidence of the plaintiff was sufficient to take the case to the jury as to this. Insured had some sort of seizure in March, 1919, while the policy was in force; and, while the physician who treated him at the time was of opinion then that it was the result of drinking denatured alcohol, his opinion at the trial,…