Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of Bloomington v. United States

Appellant complains of the dismissal of its suit against the United States filed December 4,1954, and based upon a judgment entered in appellant’s favor as of June 30, 1942. The original cause of action arose on a policy of war risk insurance. See United States v. Citizens Loan & Trust Co., 1942, 316 U.S. 209, 62 S.Ct. 1026, 86 L.Ed. 1387.

Various contentions have been made before us, chiefly concerning the statute of limitations of the District of Columbia, D.C.Code 1951, § 15-101, and the limitation contained in the World War Veterans’ Act of 1924, 38 U.S.C.A. § 445. At the outset, however,…