Crouch v. United States

BAKER, District Judge.

We have in this case a veteran sound in health upon entering the Army on September 20, 1917, and being honorably discharged therefrom on September 13, 1919, approximately two years later, having received a shrapnel wound to his right hand and possible effects of shell shock. However, the Army records introduced in evidence disclose no treatment while in service, no shell shock, nor any nervous disease, but only an attack of acute diarrhea in August, 1919. No reference is even made to the shrapnel wound to his right hand, and on the date he was discharged from the Army he…