Parrigan v. United States

ANDREW M. J. COCHRAN, District Judge.

This action is before me on defendant’s motion for new trial. It is an action on a war risk insurance policy. It was tried to a jury which found a verdict for plaintiff. The principal ground of the motion is that defendant was entitled to have the jury instructed peremptorily to find for the defendant. The *334right to siieh instruction depends on whether there was substantial evidence before the jury to the effect that, at the time of plaintiff’s discharge from the army, which was on November 21, 1919, he was totally and permanently disabled from following…