Court Opinion

ID: 9650470
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 15:38:59.259749+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:22.056662
License: Public Domain

NORTHCOTT, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I am of the opinion that the judge below was in error in allowing the amendment that permitted the administrator of the estates of the father and mother of the insured to be joined as a party plaintiff. The only claim filed by the father and mother had been rejected in November, 1925. No other claim on their behalf or for their estate was ever filed. There was, therefore, no rejection upon which a suit by their administrator could be based. The statute of limitations had run against their claim before the present suit was instituted, and the claim was dead. To hold that a claim of this character can be brought back to life in a suit instituted *792by the administrator of the deceased veteran, for an entirely different claim, by permitting such an amendment, is to utterly ignore the statute of limitations and the statute requiring the rejection of a claim before suit, and render the statutes of no effect. The facts here are entirely different from the facts in the case of Lopez v. United States, 4 Cir., 82 F.2d 982, decided by this court, and I do not think that decision controlling.