Covey v. United States
District Court, N.D. Iowa
At Law. Action by Leo L. Covey against the United States. On defendant’s motion to strike parts of count 1 of the petition, and on demurrer to count 2.
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Leo L. Covey, filed in this court on July 8, 1919, his petition in two counts against the United States of America, as defendant, as follows:
Count One.
That the plaintiff is a resident of Cherokee, Cherokee county, Iowa.
That the defendant, the United States of America, is a sovereign power and nation, and that by an act amending an act of Congress entitled “An act to authorize the establishment of a Bureau of War Bisk Insurance in the Treasury Department,” approved by the President -of said sovereign power, the United States of America, on October 6, 1917,…
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