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BEW v. UNITED STATES

No. 8233.

286 F.2d 570 (1961)

Willie Lee BEW, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Joyce R. Bew and Stanley Lee Bateman, an infant, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 23, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel F. Terry and Hudson Branham, Richmond, Va., for appellant.

R. R. Ryder, Richmond, Va., for appellees, Joyce R. Bew and Stanley Lee Bateman.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

This is a contest between the widow and a surviving brother of a soldier over the proceeds of one of the soldier's two policies of National Service Life Insurance. The adjudicator, construing the Change of Beneficiary forms 9-336 to disclose an intention that the widow receive $5,000 and the brother the other $5,000 of the total proceeds of the two policies, recommended that the claim of the brother for $5,000 be allowed. The Board of Veterans...

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