Tippens v. Metropolitan Life Ins.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit, on a policy of life insurance providing double indemnity for accidental death, was against the insurer for both single and double indemnity.

*672Brought by the administrator on behalf of the insured’s estate, the claim generally was that; one Annie Allen Ballard, living with insured as, but not legally, his wife, was, though not named as such, the real beneficiary of the policy; that, in a conspiracy with her mother, the nominal beneficiary, she had murdered the insured, and that therefore the insurer became obligated to the estate of the insured for both…