National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers v. Wood

Decedent was an honorably discharged volunteer soldier of the Civil War. In 1904, he was allowed a pension. October 19, 1924, having made application and signed an agreement in accordance with the Act of June 25, 1910, 1 he was enrolled as a member and admitted to the Danville branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and continued to be an inmate until he died, September 16,1926. During that period the United States paid his pension, in instalments of $72 per month, to the treasurer of the branch. He died intestate, leaving as his sole heir at law, a son over 21 years old.…