Barker v. United States

ERVIN, District Judge.

The facts of this ease are that one Lewis Walters, legally married Maggie Tubb on March 29, 1914, in Perry county, Ala. That on July 21,1918, he illegally married Arkansas Hogan at Corning, N. Y., without having been divorced from his wife, Maggie Walters. That he entered the military service of the United States on August 30,1918, where he applied for and was granted a war risk yearly renewable insurance policy in the sum of $10,000, instructing that it should be payable to Arkansas Walters, his wife. That he died on March 28,1919, when the policy was still in force.

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