James Clark McReynolds

“ Petitioner, Tyson, sued to recover total permanent disability benefits under a war risk term insurance contract, kept in force by premium payments while the insured remained in service. The petition, filed November 17, 1932, alleged that disability had existed ever since the claimant's discharge from the Army, December 18, 1918. ”

“ July 3, 1931, Tyson filed his claim with the Veterans' Administration. November 16, 1932, he received from it a letter, dated November 12, 1932, and mailed at Washington November 14, 1932, which stated that this had been denied. Also: 'You may consider such denial final for the purposes of instituting suit under section 19 of the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended. ”