Smith v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

This dispute is between the father and a former wife of a deceased Government employee, both of whom claim the proceeds of a Federal Group Life Insurance Policy that covered the decedent. The former wife, Christina Smith, originated the action by restraining the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from distributing the proceeds of the policy to the decedent’s father, Husted Smith; the insurance company interpleaded Husted Smith, deposited the proceeds of the policy into the Registry of the Court, and was dismissed from the litigation.

The decedent, Harold…