Adele Weiss v. United States

This is plaintiff’s fourth attempt to collect the proceeds of two policies of National Service Life Insurance, wherein she had been named as beneficiary by her brother, a veteran who died in 1948. The policies had lapsed for nonpayment of premiums before the insured died, and in our first decision we tried at some length to explain why plaintiff’s involved contention that the policies were kept alive by some supposed reserve built up contrary to government practice and regulations could not be accepted. Weiss v. United States, 2 Cir., 187 F.2d 610, affirming D.C.E.D.N.Y., 92 F.Supp. 322,…