NYE v. MUTUAL BEN. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 250.

148 F.2d 509 (1945)

NYE v. MUTUAL BEN. LIFE INS. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

March 19, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Purdy & Lamb, of New York City (Edmund F. Lamb, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Campbell, Harding, Goodwin & Danforth, of New York City (William F. Clare, Jr., of New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees, Caroline D. Nye Sams and Bonna Joy Sams, an infant.

Before EVANS, CLARK, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The dispute which provoked this appeal is between two parties who are contesting for the proceeds of a $10,000 life insurance policy which matured Jan. 6, 1943, upon the death of the insured, Olin T. Nye. The trial court submitted the case to a jury. A verdict favorable to the defendants, who were the insured's adopted daughter and her children, and against the plaintiffs, who were the administratrix of the estate of a brother of the insured...

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