United States v. Mallery

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

George Sidney Mallery, a soldier in the American Army during the late war, on November 20,1917, took out insurance upon his life for $10,000 under the War Risk Insurance Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. 398). He designated as beneficiaries of such insurance his mother for the sum of $5,000, and his father, the present appellant, for the sum of $5,000. He died in France in October, 1918, and thereafter‘payments on account of such insurance were made to his father and .mother, respectively, each receiving the sum of $28.75 monthly until the mother’s death on or *7about May…