Tyer v. Hines

VINSON, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from the action of the District Court dismissing plaintiff’s prayer for a writ of mandamus that would compel Frank T. Hines, Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, to make payments under an alleged policy of War Risk yearly renewable term insurance. Section 19 of the World War Veterans’ Act 1924, as amended, 38 U.S.C.A. § 445, provides the exclusive judicial remedy for such a claim. The fact that suit under this section, as plaintiff states, was barred by its own statute of limitations, does not make the remedy any less exclusive.

The plaintiff urges…