Powledge v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Brought under the authority of the National Service Act of 1940, as amended, 1 the suit was to recover, as beneficiary, to the extent of $2000.00, on a National Service Life Insurance Policy, issued to Henry Golden Beasley, a service man now deceased.

The claim was, that though plaintiff was entitled, as the mother “in loco parentis”, and the designated beneficiary of the veteran, to receive said sum, plaintiff’s claim was erroneously disallowed by the Veterans Administration for the stated reason that “the evidence of record fails to establish that you stood in the…