Ringler v. Ringler

The question raised by this appeal is a narrow one. On. April 10th, 1914, Sylvester K. Ringler of Cumberland, Maryland, became a member of the relief department of the Baltimore and Ohio- Railroad Company, which was organized and maintained for the purpose of providing benefit insurance for such of its employees as became members of the relief department. He was twice married and bad two* children by his first wife, Thomas Ringler and Ruth R. Kempf, the appellants in this case, and five children by his second wife. In bis application for insurance he designated as beneficiaries bis wife Ida…