Updike v. United States

WHITAKER, Judge.

This case is before the court on plaintiff’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and defendant’s motion for summary judgment.

Plaintiff’s petition alleges that he enlisted in the Army of the United States on October 15, 1942, and by April 14, 1943, had attained the rank of major; that a portion of his active service was performed in the tropical jungles of India, Burma, Siam, and Malaya; that in 1947, while stationed in Japan, he be gan to experience general debility, loss of energy, shortness of breath, and severe pains in the chest, as a consequence of which he requested…