Denny v. United States

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a directed verdict in favor of the Government. Appellant was a world war veteran, and his action arose out of the denial .of his claim for permanent total disability benefits. This claim was made under his contract of war risk term insurance which was in force from February 1, 1918, to December 1, 1918, and from March 1, 1919, to December 31, 1920. His claim was also based upon a twenty-year endowment policy of United States Government Life (converted) insurance which was in force through premium payments from January *9611, 1921, to…