United States v. Price

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents only the question whether there was evidence of total and permanent disability during the life of a policy of war risk insurance sufficient to warrant recovery on it. The soldier received in France shrapnel wounds in shoulder and hip, and says he got gassed also, but the Army record shows only the wounds. He was discharged from the Army February 10, 1919, as in good condition save for the effects of the wounds then healed; a 10 to 15 per cent, compensable disability being allowed him. He paid no further insurance premiums. After staying for eight or…