Death Is Disability
The supreme eourt ol the United States has afUraed the decisión of the eourt of claims in the case of Hattie A. hurnett, wiiiow of the late Gen. Ward Burnett, against the L nite I States. Ahí. Ward Burnett, alter tli' death i í hLT histiaiid, clatmed to be entiüed to s?; p-r montb, the rate of pension her hul '.uU was rei't'iving at the time of his death. Thé eourt ut chiiins held tnat af ter death all !c greesot disab.iity, irrespective of thercalfa.ts, are cúnsidered by law "total dlsability,'' ai;d the rate of pension given to that grade Iil' comes the rati; ui pension for the widow.
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