Cappelen v. United States

BEN MOORE, District Judge.

This is a libel in personam brought under the provisions of the statute permitting suits against the United States on a Second Seaman’s War Risk Policy. U.S.C.A. Title 46, § 1128d. The complaint, filed on June 7, 1946, alleges that the insured, Jens M. Cappelen, died on or about June 8, 1943, as a result of a bullet wound in a theater of war aboard the S. S. William B. Giles; that the death was within the terms of the policy; that the insurance benefits amounting to $5,000 have not been paid; that insured was Master of a vessel operated on behalf of the United States…