United States v. Farnsworth

These are five war risk insurance cases in all of which verdicts should have been directed for the government. In four of them there is evidence from which the conclusion can be drawn that the persons insured were suffering from tuberculosis at the time of the lapse of the policies; but there is no evidence in any of these that, at the time of the lapse, the disease had reached such stage as to constitute total and permanent disability. In one of the cases the insured was shown to have been suffering from mitral stenosis when the policy lapsed; ‘but there was no evidence that the disease was…