Hansbarger v. Spangler

Maxwell, Judge:

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Monroe County making disposition of -funds arising under a policy of United States war risk insurance which had been issued to Howard Spangler who was later killed in action as a member of the United States Expeditionary Forces in France. He was unmarried and without issue. The named beneficiary in the policy was the soldier’s father, James E. Spangler.

The father died in September, 1932. In December of that year, the plaintiff, J. H. Hansbarger, was appointed administrator of the personal estate of Howard Spangler,…