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BURNS v. UNITED STATES

No. 6479.

200 F.2d 106 (1952)

BURNS v. UNITED STATES et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 15, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James T. Smith and J. Healy Sullivan, Baltimore, Md. (Weldon L. Maddox, Baltimore, Md., on brief), for appellant.

Maurice J. Pressman, Baltimore, Md., for appellee Helen Burns Huettner, as guardian.

No brief and no argument for appellee United States.

Before PARKER, Chief Judge, SOPER, Circuit Judge, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal in an interpleader suit involving a policy of National Service Life Insurance. There was judgment in the court below in favor of the daughter of the insured and against his widow, who was the beneficiary of the insurance, on the ground that the latter had been guilty of the intentional killing of the insured and for that reason was precluded from recovering under the policy. The widow, who admittedly killed

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