Caprio v. United States

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an action to recover automatic insurance, so called, under section 401 of the War Risk Insurance Act of October 6, 1917, 40 Stat. 409, which, so far as now material, reads as follows:

“Any person in the active service on or after the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, who, while in such service and before the expiration of one hundred and twenty days from and after such publication, becomes or has become totally and permanently disabled or dies, or has died, without having applied for insurance, shall be deemed to have applied for and to have…