Dye v. Mansfield

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the presumption of soundness cannot fill the gap where the veteran failed to show a causal relationship between his in- service and post-service medical problems
• affirming this Court's finding that the presumption of soundness does not eliminate the need to demonstrate a causal connection between a veteran's current condition and his in-service injury
• “The Veterans Court correctly held that, in these cir- cumstances, the two presumptions Dye invoked were irrel- evant, and the Board therefore properly declined to discuss them.”
• presumption of soundness involves question of preexistence of “medical problems that arose during service”
• presumption of soundness involves question of preexistence of \medical problems that arose during service\
• “The ‘pre- sumption of sound condition’ addresses the situation where a question arises whether a veteran’s medical problems that arose during service existed before he joined the armed forces and, therefore, were not incurred ‘in line of duty.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).