Burton v. United States

DAWKINS, Chief Judge.

The petition alleges that Henry Burton, Jr., on June 26, 1943, while in the military service of the United States, was issued a National Service Life Insurance policy in the sum of $10,000. He designated his then wife, Lizzie Burton, and his father, Henry Burton, Sr., beneficiaries, and directed that the proceeds were “to be divided equally or all to survivor” as between them, with the plaintiff herein, insured’s brother, named as “contingent beneficiary”; that insured died on December 28, 1946, thus maturing the policy, and that the Veterans’ Administration recognized…