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METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. THOMPSON

No. 15844.

368 F.2d 791 (1966)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, v. Bessie THOMPSON, Appellee, v. Edward THOMPSON, a Minor, by Helen Mae Thompson, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided November 23, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond L. Shapiro, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.

Jerome L. Markovitz, Philadelphia, Pa. (Jerry Zaslow, Harry A. Cantor, Markovitz, Brooks & Cantor, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before HASTIE, SMITH and SEITZ, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

SEITZ, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the single question of the proper statutory construction of the word "child" in the section of the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act which provides for payment of death proceeds.

The decedent Cornelius R. Thompson was a federal employee covered by a life insurance policy which the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company issued to the United States Civil Service Commission pursuant...

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