United States v. Edna Willhite

THOMSEN, District Judge.

On this appeal by the Government from a judgment in favor of the beneficiary in an action on a National Service Life Insurance policy, the principal questions are whether there is sufficient evidence from which a jury might find that the insured soldier died before May 1, 1944, when his policy lapsed, and whether the action is barred by the six year statute of limitations.

On March 13, 1944, George Skinner, a soldier in the United States Army, applied for a National Service Life Insurance policy in the face amount of $10,-000. He designated his wife Edna May Skinner,…