Halverson v. United States

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a judgment in favor of the Government in a suit on a policy of war risk insurance presents two questions: (1) Whether the facts show that the insured obtained reinstatement of his policy by fraudulent misrepresentation; and (2) whether the Government is estopped from setting up that fraud as a defense to the suit, having collected premiums for some years after it received notice of the facts upon which the defense is based. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and the court found that the insured was guilty of fraud in procuring the policy…