METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. CHASE

No. 13542.

294 F.2d 500 (1961)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Rhoda J. CHASE, Appellant and Charles W. Chase, Elinor R. Chase Jones, Georgia E. Chase Snell and Lawson W. Chase.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided September 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond Godbersen, Washington, D. C. (William F. Davey, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellant.

Eugene M. Haring, Newark, N. J. (McCarter & English, Nicholas Conover English, Newark, N. J., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee.

Louis Lebowitz, Elizabeth, N. J. (Bassin & Bassin, Elizabeth, N. J., on the brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before MARIS, KALODNER and FORMAN, Circuit Judges.


MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This interpleader suit was instituted by the plaintiff, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, in the District Court for the District of New Jersey to secure an adjudication of the claims of five individuals alleging themselves to be entitled to the proceeds of certain insurance on the life of Lawson W. Chase, deceased, issued under the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act. 5 U.S.C.A. § 2091 et seq. Under the Act and the policy...

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