United States v. Snyder

PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.

These are two appeals from a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia.

Charles Richard Snyder was in the service of the United- States Navy. He applied for and was granted two policies of National Service Life Insurance and, by proper documents, designated as his principal beneficiary Madeleine Ursula Snyder, described by him as his “wife”, and as his “contingent beneficiary” his sister, Dorothy Helen Reul. Snyder was killed. Both Madeleine Ursula Snyder and Dorothy Helen Reul presented to the Veterans Administration claims for…