Jagodnigg v. United States

VAN VALKENBURGH, District Judge.

This is a suit brought to recover upon a policy of war risk insurance issued to the plaintiff in the sum of $10,000. The claim is for total and permanent disability.

The plaintiff entered the United States naval service April 6, 1917. March 18, 1918, he made application for $10,000 war risk insurance, making the same payable to his father and mother in equal shares in case of death. After his induction into the service he spent a period in training and then was assigned to the United States ship Von Stueben, a transport, employed between American ports and…