Funk v. Luithle

Edward Metzger was in the military service of the United. States during the World War and as such had a contract, for war risk insurance with the United States in which Edward Metzger, his father, and Elizabeth Metzger, his mother, were named as beneficiaries. The son died in military service leaving neither wife nor child. Eor some time the United States Veterans’ Bureau made monthly payments to both beneficiaries until the father died. The bureau continued making payments to the mother as the sole beneficiary, until she died on June 11, 1927, and at the time of her death the remaining…