Lawrence v. Travelers Ins. Co.

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

This is an interpleader, under which the life insurance company has paid the face value of the policy into court, and the only question is whether the fund shall be paid to the assignee of the policy or to the administrator of the insured.

The parties waived jury trial, and on the hearing the only evidence offered was a stipulation in which all material facts were agreed upon. This stipulation is adopted by the court as findings of fact and may be taken as a special verdict.

Summarized, the facts are that on August 13, 1925, one Walter Scholes took out a policy of…