United States v. Meyer

WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

Meyer, a soldier, took out a policy of war risk insurance for $10,000 which lapsed in 1918 upon his discharge from the army. On October 1, 1925, the veteran applied for and obtained reinstatement of his policy in the amount of $5000 on a showing satisfactory to the government that, though in ill health, he was not suffering from total permanent disability. He converted the policy from term insurance to endowment insurance, paid back premiums of $307.65 as required in such case and thereafter paid current premiums until the summer of 1929 when, -through force of…