Aetna Life Insurance v. McMonies

This is a suit of interpleader brought by the Aetna Life Insurance Company to have judicially determined whether a policy for $15,000, issued by it on May 7,1925, on the life of Bernard L. Metzger, now deceased, is payable to the executor under his will or to Lillian Metzger, his former wife who had divorced him. The insured money was deposited into the custody of the court and, at the determination of the suit, the money was awarded to the executor. From this decree, Mrs. Metzger has appealed.

It is undisputed under the evidence that the Metzgers intermarried in February, 1921; that she…