Scheibel v. United States

This suit is based on Sections 4, 5, and 6 of the Act of June 10, 1922, 42 Stat. 625, 627, 628, as amended by the Act of May 31, 1924, 43 Stat. 250. Section 4 of the 1922 Act is as follows:

That the term “dependent” as used in the succeeding sections of this Act shall include at all tunes and in all places a lawful wife and unmarried children under twenty-one years of age. It shall also include the mother of the officer provided she is in fact dependent on him for her chief support.

The findings of fact show that the plaintiff’s mother has been, since her husband’s death on August 12, 1935,…