Baldwin v. United States

DUNCAN, District Judge.

This is a suit to determine to whom shall be paid the proceeds of a National Service Life Insurance policy issued pursuant to the provisions of Title 38 U.S.C.A. § 802 on March 9, 1943 by the United States of America upon the life of Jack Bayne, who met his death in Germany on March 23, 1945 while on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States. At the time of his death he had' not reached his 21st birthday.

The insured designated the defendant Mabel Elizabeth Whitley as principal beneficiary, describing her as “aunt in loco parentis,” and her husband Charles…