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281 U.S. 344

Jackson v. United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Argued March 4, 5, 1930.

Decided April 14, 1930

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1930-04-14

3 counsel of record

Relies on United States v. Worley · United States v. Jackson · Jackson v. United States

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Affirmed · 8–0 · Decided 1930-04-14

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Cited by 59 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Tennant v. Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Co. (1944), Ferguson v. Moore-McCormack Lines, Inc. (1957)

18 federal appellate · 8 district · 19 state decisions — followed in 13 states

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¶1*345Mr. Thomas Amory Lee, with whom Mr. Turner W. Bell was on the brief, for petitioner.

¶2Mr. Claude R. Branch, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Attorney General Mitchell and Messrs. J. Frank Staley, W. Clifton Stone, and Erwin N. Griswold, were on the brief, for the United States.

¶3Messrs. Milo J. Warner and Robert Newbegin filed a brief as amici curiae, by special leave of Court.

¶4Mr. Justice Butler

¶5delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶6This action was brought in the United States court for Kansas to recover for permanent total disability on a war risk insurance policy. The court gave plaintiff judgment for the amount of the accrued installments with interest on .each to date of the judgment, and directed that the judgment bear interest until paid. 24 F. (2d) 981. The United States took the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals and there contended that plaintiff w;as not entitled to interest. The Circuit Court of Appeals rightly reversed the judgment. 34 F. (2d) 241.

¶7The case is ruled by this court’s decision on the third question certified in United States v. Worley, announced this day, ante, p. 339.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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