Wade v. Madding

Ms, Justice Wm. H. Swiggart

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Clarence F. Butler, a resident of Tennessee at the date of his death, was killed in action in France, in 1918, while a soldier in the Army of the United States. In 1930, the administratrix of his estate, appointed in 1926, received from the United States. Veterans’ bureau the sum of $3,892, by check payable to her as administratrix, as the balance of War Bisk Insurance on the life of the said Clarence F. Butler.

In 1916, Clarence F. Butler married Mabel Lofton Wade, widow of W. A. Wade, mother of the three complainants herein,…