Estate of Devries v. Hawkins

Letton, 0.

The evidence in this case shows that in 1902 Henry 0. Devries, who was then engaged in business in Omaha, Nebraska, carried three benefit certificates in the Bankers Life Association of Des Moines, Iowa, in the sum of $2,000 each, payable to his then wife, Flora Devries. That soon after that time, his wife Flora Devries departed this life, and that afterwards he procured a change of beneficiary in each of the three certificates, ultimately making-one of said certificates payable to his son, Wallace Olin Devries, another one payable to his second wife, Emma O. Devries, and a third to…