Ulmer v. United States

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

A judgment was rendered for the United States in a suit by the administrator of Joseph Johnson-which sought to recover war risk insurance payments made erroneously to the sisters and a brother of Johnson instead of to his widow and child to whom they should have gone. The undisputed facts are that Johnson during 1911, without any formal marriage, had a child by a woman under such circumstances as to make her his common-law wife. In 1918, while no longer living with her, but claiming one Hattie Howard as his “sweetheart,” he enlisted in the army and on August 14th…