Mackey Estate

van Roden, P. J.,

thirty-second judicial district, specially presiding,

— Decedent was a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. On April 1,1936, this organization issued to him a certain certificate of insurance, designated as certificate I. R. Q. No. 89652, which provided for the payment of death benefits in the sum of $1,500. The original beneficiary named therein was decedent’s wife, Virginia Mackey. She predeceased him on October 28, 1944.

Decedent had no children of his own, but his wife had three children by a previous marriage, two daughters and a son.- There was ample evidence…