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LA 82-2154 insurance under option one, on the basis of her age of sixty years, payable at the rate of $68.l0 per. month in continuous life instaliments beginning April 3, 1945, with 120 installments certain to be paid. The principal beneficiary died Oetober 25, 195l, after receiving a total of seventynine installments. The Veterans Administration advised that. since the contingent beneficiary predeceased the principal beneficiary, the remaining fortyone installments are due and payable to the person or persons within the class specified. The Veterans Administration to the remaining fortyone installments, but her claim was conteated by JAMes M. KINLoch, a half brother of the veteran who resided at 246 west 138th Street, New York City. CHARLOTTA BAss is the sister of the deceased veteran's mother. The Veterans Adminiatration advised that there was no.evidence that the mother of the veteran ever released parental control of the insured to CHARiOrTA BAss. He was living with the latter before he entered the United states Army to take advantage Of better educational facilities in California.. On May 7, 1954, a cOmplaint was filed by CHARLOTTA A. BAss, Civil Aetion No. l6764, in the United States District Court of the Soutnern Distriet of California under the National Service Life Act of lg4o and World War Veterans Act of lya4. In her complaint she stated that the veteran was inducted into the armed forces on July 19, lg43. (Veterans Administration Statement of Facts shows Eop date as December 1,1943.) The complaint further set forth an order issued by the Superior Court of Los Angeles County on July 15, 1941 appointing her as a guardian of the veteran. She claims that with the death of the real parents of the insured she Act of 1940.