Legal Opinion
Barrons v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 23, 1951No. 12794_1PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, Circuit Judge.
The formality of a proxy marriage was entered into by appellee, June Alger Barrens (also known as June Alger Goodwin) with Lieutenant William J. Barrens, on the 20th day of July 1944 in the city of Reno, State of Nevada. On July 27, 1944 Lieutenant Barrons was killed in action. Prior to his death the deceased had changed the beneficiary of a National Service Life Insurance policy held by him to June Alger Barrons, designating her as his wife. Appellee received payments of the proceeds from the policy until 1948. The payments were then suspended because the right thereto of…
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