Dawson v. United States

BREWSTER, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks to recover upon a contract of war risk insurance in the amount of $19,000, for which he applied May 1,1918, and which was kept in force by the payment of premiums to July 31,1919. The petitioner was discharged from service on June 20, 1919, and his claim is that at the time of his discharge he was totally and permanently disabled within the purview of the contract.

He entered the service in good physical condition, except that his doctor had suspected a predisposition to tuberculosis but had never been able to find any positive symptoms. When in…