United States v. Eide

HANEY, Circuit Judge.

In an action to recover on a war risk insurance policy, the jury returned a verdict for appellee, and from the judgment entered in accordance therewith, the government appeals.'

The soldier contracted influenza while in the army, and appellee seeks recovery on the ground that the soldier contracted a neuropsychiatric disease as a result of the influenza, which rendered him totally and permanently disabled.

Appellee called Dr. Edwin M. Wilder as a witness, who was given the departmental definition of total and permanent disability, and was then asked: “Bearing in mind that…