Woodworth v. Tepper

The United States Veterans’ Bureau paid to the appellees, as administrators of the estate of George Mitchell Jacobs,deceased, the sum of $3,949.45, as the unpaid portion of the life insurance provided in a policy issued to the decedent as a veteran of the World War. After his death, on July 10th, 1920, monthly instalments of the insurance were paid, under the terms of the policy, to his mother, as the designated beneficiary, until her death on August 31st, 1924. The World War Veterans Act provides, in section 303, that if the designated beneficiary “survives the insured and dies prior to…