United States v. Barton

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Henry Barton was issued a policy of war risk insurance during his military service in 1918. In 1925, he converted it' into a twenty-year endowment policy of Government life insurance in the amount of $5,000. This contract was kept in force until January 1, 1936, when Barton claimed to have become totally and permanently disabled. This appeal presents questions involving the propriety of certain proceedings on the trial and the correctness of the court’s denial of the Government’s motion for a dirécted verdict.

If, when all the evidence was construed most favorably to…