Shannahan v. Shannahan

In May, 1920, Eugene Henry Shannahan bought a policy of life insurance with the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company of California. His wife at that time, Bernice S. Shannahan, was named as beneficiary. In February, 1935, the insured died, but during the interim, he had been divorced from Bernice S. Shannahan and had been married to Catherine Reid Shannahan. At'numerous times before his death, he requested the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company to change the name of the beneficiary in the policy to Catherine Reid Shannahan but, as required by the policy, he did not deliver it for that…