DeFont v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• delivery of precursors to mail drop; use of fictitious names; activities within building outside normal working hours
• although the wife and children of a deceased serviceman had an independent cause of action for emotional distress caused by his death, Feres bars their suit
• serviceman’s wife’s action for loss of companionship, loss of husband’s income and mental anguish, child’s action for loss of companionship
• serviceman's wife's action for mental anguish; child for loss of companionship
• serviceman's wife's mental anguish; child's loss of companionship