Roberts v. United States

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to recover from the United States the proceeds of a National Service Life Insurance policy in the amount of $10,000 on the life of Joe William Roberts, an officer in the Air Corps of the United States Navy who lost his life on active duty in the late war on January 10, 1944. The insurance was claimed by Margaret Elizabeth Roberts, the widow of the insured, and also by Joseph Johnson Roberts, his father, and the latter, as a party in interest, was joined as a defendant. The insured entered the armed services of the United States on February 23, 1942,…