Gliceria Ramos Vda De Sinlao v. United States of America and Sumner G. Whittier, Administrator of Veterans Affairs

Appellant sought review of a decision of the Administrator of Veterans Affairs terminating payments of death compensation and National Service Life Insurance under the Veterans’ Benefits statute.1 The Administrator allowed the claims shortly after the death of appellant’s husband, an Army private, but ceased payments in 1948. Appellant filed suit in 1957. The District Court dismissed the complaint.

The court rightly held that suit on the insurance claim was barred because not brought within the time required by statute, namely “within six years after the right accrued for which the claim is…