METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. PETERSEN

Civ. No. 9599.

156 F.Supp. 765 (1957)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a body corporate of the State of New York v. Carl F. PETERSEN, Executor of Frederick W. Petersen, and Lucia Larkin and Frederick Carl Petersen (Otherwise known as Frederick Carl Peterson).

United States District Court D. Maryland, Civil Division.

December 6, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Hall Harris, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for plaintiff.

Thomas F. Cadwalader, Baltimore, Md., and Edmund L. Harvey, Chester, Pa., for executor.

Edward D. E. Rollins, Jr., Elkton, Md., and H. Ross Black, Jr., Baltimore, Md., for Lucia Larkin and Frederick Carl Petersen.


THOMSEN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff insurance company filed this action under the Federal Interpleader Act, 28 U.S.C.A. 41(26),* to determine who is entitled to receive $915.44, the proceeds of two insurance policies on the life of Frederick W. Petersen, now deceased. In both policies the company agreed, inter alia, "to pay upon receipt of due proof of the death of the Insured and upon surrender...

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