Gerstenlauer v. United States

BYERS', District Judge.

This cause, in which the Government is neutral as a stake-holder, involves the single question of whether one Lavin M. Andersen, who died September 9, 1945 while holding a commission in the United States Army as Major (M.C.), accomplished a change of beneficiary as to two $5,000 U. S. National Service Life Insurance, policies in favor of his daughter, Mary Elizabeth, in place of his mother, Mary Josephine (who died August 30, 1946, her administrator being named as a defendant) as to Policy No. K678905, dated June 1, 1927; and of his wife, Lorna Alberta as to Policy No.…