Baer v. DeBerry

This is an interpleader action, commenced by the trustees of a union-management welfare plan, because decedent’s three wives and a son of his first marriage each claimed the plan death benefit. The chancellor directed payment to the third wife, and the son appeals.

Timothy DeBerry died October 18, 1958, a resident of Chicago, Hlinois. He had been married three times. His first marriage was to Hattie DeBerry Mitchell, in 1931 in Mississippi. His second marriage was to Lucile Bravo DeBerry, in 1940 in California. His third and last marriage was to Evelyn Marie DeBerry, in 1954 in Illinois. The…