POPE, Circuit Judge.
W. C. Fields, the comedian, died December 25, 1946. By reason of his death, the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company became liable upon a single premium life insurance policy which Fields had purchased from the company on March 8, 1934. The company paid one-half of the proceeds of this policy to the designated beneficiaries, Walter Fields and Adel C. Smith, appellants herein. Because the comedian's wife, Harriet V. Fields, with whom he had not lived...
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