Succession of Lynch v. United States

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was filed by the administrator of the estate of Silas Lynch, Jr., on March 25, 1935, upon a policy of war risk insurance, in which it was alleged that he died while in service as a soldier, thereby maturing the policy. The petition alleged that Lynch died in a government hospital on July 6, 1919; that Emma Lynch “whom he thought was his wife,” was the designated beneficiary, but that she had previously been married to Henry Reed, “which marriage had never been dissolved, consequently Emma Lynch was not his wife and could not under the law * * * be the…