United States v. Rice

VAN VALKENBURGH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a policy of war risk insurance, granted to appellee in December, 1917. The premiums thereon were kept fully paid to and including July 1, 1926. Appellee was raised on a farm, and his education ended with the eighth grade of a centralized school at Gooding, Idaho. He enlisted April 11, 1917, in the 2d Idaho Infantry. After landing in France this regiment was transferred to the 167th Division, 42d Infantry. Appellee served on the Loraine front, and in the campaigns of Champagne-Mame, Meuse-Argonne, and St. Mihiel. On the…