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UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS

No. 5812.

86 F.2d 746 (1936)

UNITED STATES v. WILLIAMS.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

December 9, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Walsh, of Washington, D. C., and Michael L. Igoe, U. S. Atty., Edmond Sullivan, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Frederic Maughmer, Atty., Department of Justice, all of Chicago, Ill., for the United States.

Frank C. Wade, of Terre Haute, Ind., and W. J. Doyle, of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before EVANS, Circuit Judge, and LINDLEY and BALTZELL, District Judges.

LINDLEY, District Judge.

The United States appeals from a judgment awarding war risk insurance benefits to the beneficiary in a contract of a deceased member of the Navy.

Benson Charles Williams, aged seventeen years, enlisted in the naval service January 13, 1919. On the same day he applied for and obtained a contract of war risk insurance in the principal sum of $10,000, in which appellee, his mother, was named as beneficiary. There was substantial evidence...

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