Court Opinion

ID: 9829747
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 19:35:28.404908+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:05.580716
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing by Appellants.
If, as insisted by appellants, the policy of insurance in controversy became the community property of Roscoe C. Blackburn and his former wife, Minnie Bell Blackburn, the burden was upon them to allege and prove that the policy of insurance was acquired before Minnie Bell Blackburn was divorced, from Roscoe O. Blackburn, and this they failed to dó.
The agreed statement of facts filed in the record here shows that Roscoe 0. Blackburn, while serving as a soldier in the United States Army at the time of the World War, became totally and permanently disabled and by reason thereof was entitled to a United States war risk policy for $10,000; but there is no showing in the record whether said disability occurred before or after the date when Minnie Bell Blackburn was granted a divorce from Roscoe G. Blackburn; nor does it appear when the war insurance policy in. controversy was in fact issued.
It therefore follows that appellants failed to show a right of recovery, on the theory that the policy became the community property of the insured and his former wife, even though it could be said that that contention could be given effect in spite of the express *924provisions of the War Veterans’ Act of March 4, 1925 (38 USCA § old), to the contrary.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.