Morris v. United States

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This controversy had its source in the fact that the wife and the sweetheart of Sgt. Olen R. Morris, the insured under a $10,000 National Service Life Insurance Policy, were not one and the same person, and in the further fact that his attempt to support two major vices was too much for him. The last one brought about his suicide, and the first one furnished the parties for the argument over the proceeds of the policy.

The sweetheart, Lucille Robertson, was the named beneficiary at the time of his death. Willie Morris, his estranged wife, was the beneficiary at the…