United States v. Mroch

SIMONS, Circuit Judge.

The appellant was sued for a balance admitted to be due on a war risk insurance policy issued to plaintiff’s husband, William Alfred Sheeter, who died while in the military service of the government. The controversy involves the right of the appellant to set off against such balance compensation received by the plaintiff in another representative capacity and later found by the Director of the Veterans’ Administration to have been paid under a mistake of fact. The cause was tried to the court without a jury, and from a judgment for the plaintiff upon appropriate findings…