Singleton v. Cheek

delivered the opr" on of the Court.

Lee Ray Jackson, a soldier in the United States army, received a certificate of insurance on his life, issued by the United States through the Bureau of War Risk-Insurance on September 5, 1918. His wife, Mary Lucinda Jackson, was named as beneficiary. He died intestate March 21, 1921, a resident of Craig County, Oklahoma, leaving him surviving his wife and a son named James Lee Roy Jack son, a minor child about seven months old. In March,' 1922, the child died, of course intestate; and in March, 1923, the widow died intestate, in the meantime having married…