Mrs. Nancy Ellen Gilbert Acker v. United States

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Filed by the deceased’s mother as his beneficiary under the purported authority of the Servicemen’s Indemnity Act of 1951, Part One Public Law 23, 82nd Congress, 38 U.S.C.A. § 851 et seq. 1 the suit was brought to recover the $10,000 death gratuity provided by the Act. Her complaint alleged: that her son had filed with the proper authorities a written designation of plaintiff as his beneficiary of the insurance provided by the Act; that she had filed with the Veterans’ Administration a claim for the benefits under such contract of insurance; that the claim was…