June A. Cyrus v. United States

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge.

June A. Cyrus filed a complaint against the United States to recover the sum of §10,000, being the amount of insurance granted by the United States, pursuant to the Servicemen’s Indemnity Act of 1951, 65 Stat. 33, 38 U.S.C.A. § 851 et seq., on the life of her son, Richard Thomas Alexander, who died while on active duty as a member of the Armed Forces. Alexander had not designated a beneficiary, and had neither a wife nor child. In these circumstances, the Act provided in § 3 that the indemnity should be paid to a parent, “including a stepparent, parent by adoption, or…