Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Edward Manning, and Thomas Gaines, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 19, 1977No. 1181, Docket 77-7053PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, Circuit Judge:
At stake on this appeal from a judgment entered in the Southern District of New York, Charles H. Tenney, District Judge, adopting a report of Magistrate Harold J. Raby, are the proceeds of a $10,000 federal employees’ group life insurance policy which was owned by the deceased, Irene Penn Manning, at the time of her death on September 28, 1975. The district court awarded the insurance proceeds to her second husband, Edward Manning. Her first husband, Thomas Gaines, Jr., appeals. We affirm, but on different grounds than those relied on by the magistrate and adopted by…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- De Sylva v. BallentineSupreme Court of the United States · 1956
- Nellie Mae Stribling v. United States of America, the Prudential Insurance Company of America and Georgia Mae StriblingCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1969
- Gaines v. JacobsenNew York Court of Appeals · 1954
- Roberts v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1946
- Breckline v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
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3Cited by37 opinions
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