Legal Opinion
United States v. Fitch
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 16, 1950No. 4054_1PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICKETT, Circuit Judge.
This was an action by the appellee, Mary Aguirre Fitch, to recover as beneficiary of a $10,000.00 National Service Life Insurance contract issued to her husband, Henry Barncastle Fitch. The case was tried by the court without a jury and judgment was entered in her favor and the government has appealed.
The controlling facts are not in dispute. Fitch, hereinafter referred to as the insured, while on active duty with the armed forces obtained the insurance and kept it in force by payment of the premiums from March 1, 1944 to June 30, 1946. The contract lapsed July 1, 1946,…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Federal Crop Ins. Corp. v. MerrillSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Finn v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- United States v. MichelSupreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Munro v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Wilber Nat. Bank of Oneonta v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Sanders v. CommissionerCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1955
- United States v. VannDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1962
- McDaniel v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1952
- Leo Sanders and Jessie H. Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Leo Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Jessie H. Sanders v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Arthur L. Fleming, District Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Oklahoma and Texas, and Earl R. Wiseman, Director of Internal Revenue at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma v. Leo Sanders and Jessie H. Sanders, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1955
- Atlantic Richfield Co. v. HickelCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1970
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