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ROUNTREE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 463.

49 F.Supp. 840 (1943)

ROUNTREE v. UNITED STATES.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

April 24, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

McClendon & Edmonds, of Jackson, Miss., and Milton Coverdale, Jr., of Monroe, La., for plaintiff.

Jared Y. Fontenot, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Shreveport, La., and Roy J. Goss, Atty., Department of Justice, of Jackson, Miss., for defendant.

PORTERIE, District Judge.

In action on war risk policy by the insured, claiming reinstatement after lapse, the defense by the Government was that the reinstatement had been procured by fraud. The question of equitable fraud, upon suggestion from the attorney for the Bureau of War Risk Litigation, was reserved by and for the court, pending submission of all other issues to the jury (the main one being that of legal fraud). The verdict was for the plaintiff and the...

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