Adams v. Police & Firemen's Insurance

This is an action in equity for the purpose of declaring that a change of beneficiaries was made in a fraternal beneficial certificate, changing the beneficiary from Mary Elias, the deceased mother of John Q. Adams, the insured, to Hazel Adams, his wife, and, in case that such a change should be held to have been made, awarding plaintiff, Hazel Adams, the whole proceeds of the certificate. If there was no change of beneficiaries, then the heirs of the insured are entitled to the proceeds of the certificate, one-quarter to the surviving wife, who is not the parent of the surviving child, and…