Spencer v. United States

BREWSTER, District Judge.

On February 10, 1931, the plaintiff, a veteran, signed and made oath to a petition setting forth that he had a claim against the United States on a war risk insurance policy, but that the United States disagreed with him as to his claim, and asking for a judgment against the United States for the amount of the policy. The plaintiff died on March 14, 1931. On *47March 31, 1931, the plaintiff’s attorney, being unaware of the plaintiff’s death, filed the petition in the clerk’s office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. At the same…