Bland v. United States

Conflicting claims to the benefits arising under a contract of National Service Life Insurance issued upon the life of Harvey L. Smith in the sum of $10,000.00, being policy No. N-1,136,357, were resolved by findings that, beginning when the veteran was eleven years old and continuing until his death, the claimant Minnie Alverson, the aunt of deceased, had stood in loco parentis to him, and that she was entitled to the proceeds of the policy.

One of the claimants, the natural mother of deceased, appealing from the judgment based on these findings, is here insisting that the judgment is not…