United States v. Atkinson, No. 265
Court | United States Supreme Court |
Writing for the Court | STONE |
Citation | 56 S.Ct. 391,80 L.Ed. 555,297 U.S. 157 |
Decision Date | 03 February 1936 |
Docket Number | No. 265 |
Parties | UNITED STATES v. ATKINSON |
v.
ATKINSON.
Messrs. Homer S. Cummings, Atty. Gen., and Will G. Beardslee, of Washington, D.C., for the United States.
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Mr. Warren E. Miller, of Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case was brought here on certiorari, 296 U.S. 559, 56 S.Ct. 123, 80 L.Ed. 394, to review a determination of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, said to be inconsistent with our decision in Miller v. United States, 294 U.S. 435, 55 S.Ct. 440, 79 L.Ed. 977. The challenged holding is that there is statutory authority for including in contracts of United States government insurance (converted war risk insurance) covering death or total permanent disability a provision that 'the permanent loss of hearing of both ears * * * shall be deemed to be total disability.' The case was tried in the District Court to a jury which rendered a verdict for the plaintiff, respondent here. Judgment in his favor was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 76 F.(2d) 564, which held that the insertion in the policy of the quoted definition of total disability, pursuant to Veterans' Administration Regulation, § 3122, was authorized by 43 Stat. 624, 1309, 38 U.S.C. § 512 (38 U.S.C.A. § 512).1
The government, by its assignment of errors here, assails, as it did in the court below, the correctness of
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this ruling, but examination of the record discloses that no such objection was presented to the trial court. In consequence the government is precluded from raising the question on appeal.
The trial judge instructed the jury that respondent might recover either on the theory that his loss of hearing constituted in fact a permanent disability preventing his pursuit of any substantially gainful occupation, or that his loss of hearing of both ears, if permanent, was a permanent disability as defined by the policy. The jury was thus left free to return a verdict for respondent if it found that he had suffered permanent loss of hearing of both ears, regardless of its effect upon his ability to earn his livelihood. The government failed to question the correctness of these instructions either by exception or request to charge, and its motion for a directed verdict was upon other grounds not now material.
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