Blanco v. Velez

Jose Bayonet, a merchant seaman engaged in the service of the War Shipping Administration, lost his life on the high seas due to enemy action. The Maritime Service had provided a war risk insurance to the amount of $5,000 and this has been paid to the defendant-respondent herein, one of five surviving sisters, whom the deceased, when he signed the ship’s articles, had designated as beneficiary and next of kin to be notified in the event of death or emergency. Three of the sis ters, the plaintiífs-appellants herein, now bring this action to compel their sister, Teresa, to share the proceeds of…