Phoenix v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Charles O. Fleck was the insured in three policies of life insurance in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the principal sum of $22,000, and his wife Linnie B. Fleck was the named beneficiary. Mrs. Fleck died on January 14, 1962, and on May 29, 1962, Mr. Fleck died without changing or designating another named beneficiary. Upon proof of death and surrender of tile policies the company paid Melvin Krah, the executor of Fleck’s estate, the proceeds of the policies. Whereupon the plaintiffs, Margaret L. Phoenix and Thomas F. Gordon, children of Mrs. Fleck by a…