United States v. Vineyard

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit, filed in August, 1931, is on a war risk insurance policy; the claim is that plaintiff became totally and permanently disabled on October 8, 1918. It is admitted that on that date he received a gunshot wound in the lower left leg, and that a serious and disabling injury then resulted. The controversy is over its totality and permanence. The District Judge thought the evidence made an issue for the jury as to these, and over defendant’s insistence that it should have an instructed verdict he sent the case to them. A verdict for plaintiff resulted. Defendant is…