United States v. Irwin

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a verdict and judgment thereon, finding that plaintiffs’ decedent became, before his war risk term insurance policies lapsed, permanently and totally disabled, presents the single question whether defendant’s motion for directed verdict should have been granted.

It stands established by the record that plaintiff’s decedent, Irwin, received serious injuries in action overseas. That he was gassed; that he was knocked down and partially buried by á shell, with concussion of the brain, resulting in psychoneurosis, and that he was bayonetted in the hand and…