Birdie B. Turner v. United States

GARDNER, Chief Judge.

This was an action brought by appellant against the United States to recover the $10,000 death gratuity provided by the Servicemen’s Indemnity Act of 1951, 38 U.S.C.A. § 851 et seq. We shall refer to the parties as they were designated in the trial court.

In her complaint plaintiff alleged, in effect, that she was the mother of James Reed Turner who died at Little Rock, Arkansas, on July 14, 1954, being at said time an enlisted person in the United States Army; that said James Reed Turner was never married and had no children; that he was seventeen years of age at the time…