Galey v. United States

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

On appeal from a directed verdict for the United States in an action by the ad-ministratrix of a deceased veteran on a certificate of war risk insurance, there is, involved the meaning of § 305 of the World War Veterans’ Act of 1924, as amended July 3, 1930, 38 U.S.C.A. § 516, whereby the Congress undertook to relieve veterans from a “seeming” [United States v. Woolen, 6 Cir., 25 F.2d 673, 677] or a “supposed” [United States v. Sellers, 5 Cir., 75 F.2d 623] lapse of their certificates for non-payment- of premiums by permitting uncollected and uncollectible disability…