HAWKINS v. HAWKINS

No. 17775.

271 F.2d 870 (1959)

Imajean HAWKINS, Appellant, v. Bertha Lue HAWKINS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

November 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B. Howe, Buchanan, Ga., James I. Parker, Cedartown, Ga., Howe & Murphy, Buchanan, Ga., for appellant.

W. Wallace Shafer, Lakeland, Fla., Robert F. Nunez, Tampa, Fla., Bentley, Shafer, Miller & Sinder, Lakeland, Fla., for appellee.

Before RIVES, Chief Judge, and TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of a former wife of a serviceman to whom the trial court awarded the proceeds of a National Service life insurance policy as against the second wife to whom he was married at the time of his death. The United States appeared in the litigation merely in the guise of a stakeholder.

The deceased veteran Hawkins was married to Bertha Lue when he took out the insurance policy on August 1...

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