Durst v. Durst

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Allegany County which held that the appellee, Flossie R. B. Durst, had acquired a vested interest in an insurance contract on the life of the appellant, Sylvan C. Durst, and that the latter had lost his reserved right to compel the other appellee, the Equi table Life Insurance Company of Iowa, to change the beneficiaries therein.

The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts which is summarized as follows: On August 10, 1933 Sylvan C. Durst purchased a life insurance policy naming Flossie L. B. Durst, then his wife, as the…