METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. RICHARDSON

No. 20.

27 F.Supp. 791 (1939)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. RICHARDSON et al.

District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

April 10, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pujo, Hardin & Porter, of Lake Charles, La., and Spencer, Phelps, Dunbar & Marks, of New Orleans, La., for plaintiff.

John H. Benckenstein and Renfro & Keen, all of Beaumont, Tex., for defendant Linnie Richardson.

McCoy, King & Jones, of Lake Charles, La., and Sanders & Veillon, for defendant Willie B. Richardson.


PORTERIE, District Judge.

The Court is of the view that paragraph 9 as to change of beneficiary in Group Contract No. 103 is not an exclusive manner of effecting a change of beneficiary; that the provisions of said paragraph are mainly for the business facility of the insuring company and the insured, and certainly not a right to the beneficiary at will; and that what transpired in the way of a change of beneficiary according to the facts of this case, namely, the...

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