Bell v. Phillips

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Emma Phillips, a citizen of Texas, claiming that there was no legally qualified beneficiary and that she was entitled to the proceeds as the surviving mother of the insured,1 sued Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the State court2 on a group policy which insured her son, Benjamin McCullough, and named as beneficiary “Ethel McCullough, wife.”

Metropolitan thereupon filed in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas, its bill of inter-pleader 3 against Emma Phillips and Mrs. Ethel Bell, alias Mrs. Ethel McCullough, both resident…