MORRIS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 5936-5938.

303 F.2d 533 (1962)

Gertrude Welch MORRIS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee. Verna D. MORRIS, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee. Henry Carl MORRIS et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

May 31, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis W. McCauley, Detroit, Mich., with whom Hugh J. Corcoran, Springfield, Mass., McCauley & Anderson, Detroit, Mich., and Ely, King, Kingsbury & Corcoran, Springfield, Mass., were on the brief, for appellants.

Richard J. Heiman, Attorney, Department of Justice, with whom Louis F. Oberdorfer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lee A. Jackson and Joseph Kovner, Attorneys, Department of Justice, W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., U. S. Atty., and Joseph F. Gargan, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WOODBURY, Chief Judge, and HARTIGAN and ALDRICH, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

Now deceased taxpayer, a resident of Michigan, was insured under several policies of life insurance issued by Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Co., a Massachusetts corporation. By a divorce decree he was required to maintain one policy in force for the benefit of his former wife, but with the right to borrow against it. His other policies named his mother and sons, respectively, as revocable beneficiaries. Taxpayer assigned all of these policies...

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