Legal Opinion
Nieves v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 10, 1947No. 9227PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR K. MILLER, Associate Justice.
Gregorio Cruz Collazo enlisted in the United States Army on February 26, 1915. He became mentally unbalanced, and was officially declared incompetent as of February 13, 1917. On April 12, 1917, he was discharged from the army, but was confined in an insane asylum until his death on January 15, 1944.
After the inception of Collazo’s disabling misfortune, the Congress enacted on October 6, 1917, what was termed a War Risk Insurance Act, which, among other things, provided that “any person in the active service on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen…
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