Mallers v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an interlocutory decree sustaining a bill of interpleader and discharging appellee, Equitable Life (upon payment of $77,232.88 into court), from liability on certain policies of life insurance and enjoining the executor of insured and the legatees and executrix of deceased beneficiary from prosecuting any actions on the policies.

John B. Mailers, Jr., the insured under four life insurance policies of the face value of $25,000 each, died July 10, 1934. His executor is Charles E. Mailers, appellant. The insured’s wife, Jennie Eaton Mailers, beneficiary,…