METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. WENCKUS


244 A.2d 424 (1968)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Marjorie WENCKUS, Administratrix of the Estate of Melvin J. Dugas, et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

July 18, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Mitchell, Portland, for appellee.

McCarthy, Beliveau & Beliveau, by William E. McCarthy and Richard E. Whiting, Rumford, for Contingent Beneficiary.

Before WILLIAMSON, C. J., and WEBBER, MARDEN, DUFRESNE and WEATHERBEE, JJ.


WILLIAMSON, Chief Justice.

This complaint of interpleader by a life insurance company is before us on appeal upon an agreed statement of facts from the judgment of the Superior Court that the contingent beneficiary, mother of the deceased insured, is entitled to the proceeds of the policy. The appeal is denied. M.R. C.P., Rule 76 (now Rule 74(r)).

The beneficiaries named in the policy are the wife by name, now the widow, "but if such Beneficiary (ies) shall...

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