Sprencel v. United States

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Plaintiff sues upon a policy of war risk insurance in his favor for the sum of $10,-000, issued January 18, 1918. He alleges that $2,500 of this amount is admittedly in force, from which he has received monthly payments since May 14, 1925; that while at the front on October 15,1918, he was gassed and at the time of his discharge on July 3, 1919, was totally and permanently disabled, which matured the whole policy. In the alternative plaintiff alleges that if he was not so totally and permanently disabled, then he was at that time “suffering from a compensa-ble service…