Mrs. Elizabeth McWilliams Seekatz Lyle v. Nena Farrar Bentley

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This controversy involves the rightful beneficiary of a National Service Life

Insurance policy on the life of Harold R. Bentley issued pursuant to 38 U.S.C.A. § 701 et seq. Jurisdiction in the court below was predicated on 38 U.S.C.A. § 784.

The pertinent facts of this case begin in 1941 when the insurance policy in question was issued. Nena Bentley, Harold’s wife, was then named as the principal beneficiary. Bentley divorced Nena in 1960. Two years later, on October 10, 1962, Bentley executed an insurance form which removed his divorced wife as principal beneficiary and…