PHILLIPS v. UNITED STATES

Civ. A. No. 4566.

332 F.Supp. 601 (1970)

Lottie B. PHILLIPS, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant, Wiley PHILLIPS, Third-Party Claimant.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

September 9, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. Smith Bonner, Sullivan, Sullivan & Keyes, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiff.

Robert E. Hauberg, U. S. Atty., Jackson, Miss., O. B. Triplett, Jr., Forest, Miss., for claimant.


WILLIAM HAROLD COX, District Judge.

The plaintiff is the widow of a Vietnam veteran who died in service of the United States in such foreign war on August 2, 1966. The controversy here involves the question as to the identity of the beneficiary of $5,000 of National Service Life Insurance effective on the life of the veteran at his death. The claimant is the father of the deceased veteran. The Board of Veterans Appeals decided in favor of the father, and against the...

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