Sloan v. United States

WYCHE, District Judge.

This action was commenced by Dr. Baylis F. Sloan against the United States for benefits under a policy of government life insurance for an alleged total permanent disability. While the action was pending, the plaintiff died, and subsequent thereto Mrs. Emma Merrick Sloan, the executrix of the estate of the insured and the beneficiary named in his policy, was substituted as plaintiff and permitted to file an amended complaint.. The case came on for trial before me and a jury in the Anderson division of this court on May 27, 1937.

It was conceded by the defendant that a…