Wood v. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff, as administrator of the estate of Walter Searles, deceased, brought this suit to recover pension moneys that had accumulated to his credit in the hands of the treasurer at the Soldiers’ Home from payments by the Pension Board prior to his death. The case was tried without a jury upon an agreed statement of facts.

The deceased was an inmate and member of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (now by act of Congress, July 3; 1930 [46 Stat. 1016], Veterans’ Administration Home of Danville, Ill., which is bound by the “contracts and obligations” of…