Rutledge v. United States

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This is a contest between the widow and mother of a deceased soldier over the proceeds of a policy of National Service Insurance upon his life.

Most of the facts are not disputed and are as follows:

Wayne T. Hardwick while in training as a cadet in the air service, on December 2, 1942, took out a policy of National Service Insurance on his life in favor of his mother, Mrs. Katie Jane Mitchell, for the maximum amount of $10,000. He was graduated from Selman Navigation School near Monroe, Louisiana, on October 16, 1943, commissioned as a second lieutenant, and on the same…