Campbell v. United States

TIMMERMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit by Mary Ann Campbell, daughter of Herbert Campbell, a deceased soldier, to collect from the Government what is commonly termed automatic insurance of $25 per month from October 27, 1918, to February 26, 1930, under Section 401 of the War Risk Insurance Act of October 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 409.

The insurance installments sued for were paid by the Government, during the period in question, to Mary Ann Miller, the mother of the deceased.

“The facts, as stipulated, are that Herbert Campbell was inducted into the military service of the United States on July 18,…