Legal Opinion
Berry v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 29, 1940No. 265PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury in an action upon a policy of war risk insurance. The only substantial question is whether there was evidence on which a jury might find that the plaintiff was permanently and totally disabled on September 1, 1919. He was a farmer, born in Vermont in 1892, and served in the army in France during the Great War. In June of 1918, while standing guard in the front line, a shell burst close to him and wounded him in several places. He was ordered to a dugout until the shelling stopped, so that he could go…
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3Cited by6 opinions
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