Quirk v. United States

(after stating tho facts as above).

The United States is not in the insurance business for profit, but only for the purpose of protection to those who offered themselves voluntarily or involuntarily as sacrifices in its military and naval service. Such contracts should be construed liberally so as to afford the protection intended by the statutes. White v. U. S., 270 U. S. 175, 180, 46 S. Ct. 274, 70 L. Ed. 530; Peart v. Chaze, 13 F.(2d) 908 (D. C. W. D. La.); and Starnes v. U. S., 13 F.(2d) 212 (D. C. E. D. Tex.). Congress evidently intended that such contracts should be so construed, as…