Connie Nell Lewis and Juanita Gibson Lewis v. United States

*89HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Filed on May 22,1953, by Juanita Gibson Lewis, the widow and principal beneficiary of Harvey C. Lewis, who died on June 11, 1945, on behalf of herself and as next friend for their minor child, Connie Nell Lewis, his contingent beneficiary, the suit was brought to recover total disability benefits provided for in National Life Insurance Company policy No. N-15-931-199 issued to deceased on March 24, 1944.

The claim, a double barrelled one, was: that at the time of assured’s death on June 11, 1945, he was, and had been since February 23, 1945, when the policy was in force…