Legal Opinion
Life Ins. Co. of Virginia v. Herrmann
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 4, 1944No. 139PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.
Appellee sued appellant for the proceeds of a $1000 life insurance policy, claiming that the substitution in her place of another beneficiary, to whom appellant had made payment, was invalid. Trial was by the court, which gave judgment for the amount claimed. The insurance company has appealed.
Appellee was the daughter of one Edward Gordon Swindell, now deceased. He originally named his then wife as beneficiary in the policy, reserving power of substitution. After her death he substituted appellee. A year later, in 1937, he remarried. On November 30, 1939, he…
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