Branch v. United States

VAUGHT, Chief Judge.

On February 27, 1948,' the plaintiff Ophelia Branch filed her complaint seeking to recover on an insurance policy issued February 3, 1943 by the defendant United States of America on the life of Eddie Branch, an enlisted man in the military service, (hereinafter referred to as the insured.) The beneficiaries named therein are Ophelia Branch, wife, $5,000, and John Branch, father, $5,000, with a provision that if either of the beneficiaries died the survivor should become the sole beneficiary in that event.

The plaintiff alleges that the insured died on June 14, 1944, while…