Clarice Kidd Shoemaker v. Euless Shoemaker, Administrator of the Estate of Euless Paul Shoemaker Mrs. Minnie Shoemaker, and United States of America

This is an appeal by a veteran’s widow from a judgment of the District Court in an interpleader action denying her, as designated beneficiary, the right to receive the proceeds of her deceased husband’s policy of National Service Life Insurance, and awarding the proceeds to the parents of the insured pursuant to 38 U.S.C.A. § 802(h) (3) (C).

It is admitted that the insured died “as the result of gunshot wounds inflicted by his wife.” Although the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, as amended [54 Stat. 1008, 38 U. S.C. §§ 801-824], makes no provision for the situation where the…