Demeter v. United States

HITZ, Associate Justice.

This appellant is a soldier discharged from the United States Army for disability incurred in the line of duty.

At the time of his discharge he had in force a policy of war risk insurance) entitling him to $16,000 in certain installment payments upon certain conditions.

In the course of pleading the plaintiff finally joined issue upon the defendant’s third plea to the amended declaration, which denied that the plaintiff “became permanently and totally disabled on April 23, 1918, or at any time while said contract of insurance was in force.”

His disability was caused by a…