United States v. Elizabeth M. Siegel

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

The Government appeals from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern Division of the Western District of Washington, in favor of Mrs. Siegel, suing under § 401 of the War Insurance Act as amended- by § 12 of the Act of December 24, 1919, to recover insurance on the life of her son, a soldier. He disappeared on October 24, 1918 and never was seen again.

The district court held that Siegel’s suit filed on June 4, 1952, over twenty-three years after his disappearance, was not barred by the limitation of the act under which the suit was filed, because the…