Domena v. United States

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico dismissing a complaint in an action filed on January 3, 1941, to recover on a policy of war risk insurance issued during the first World War.

Omitting recitation of procedural matters which in the view we take are inconsequential, the case may be stated thus: The plaintiff-appellant is the widow, and “judicial administrator” of the estate, of one Felix Manzano Reyes who was inducted into the United States Army on August 14, 1918, and discharged therefrom for physical disability on September 24, 1918,…