Germana E. Prado Del Castillo v. United States

ORR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed a claim with the Veterans’ Administration on June 11, 1948 claiming to be the beneficiary of gratuitous life insurance deemed to have been issued pursuant to the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940 1 to a serviceman killed in action in the Philippines on April 3, 1942. Appellant’s claim is based upon her contention that she was the last person to stand in loco parentis to the deceased serviceman. She was first notified that her claim had been denied on July 31, 1956. The reason given was that she did not fall within the restricted class of…