Legal Opinion
Cohn v. Cohn
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 29, 1948No. 9671PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRETTYMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a civil action brought by the wife of a deceased naval officer against his parents and the United States to recover the proceeds of a National Service Life Insurance policy. The parents of the insured were the named beneficiaries on the policy. The wife claimed that by a change she had been named in their stead.
No writing, formal or informal, explicit or merely suggestive, nor any purported copy of such a writing, evidencing a change in beneficiary, was produced upon the trial. The Navy Department had no such document, and neither had the Veterans…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Tayloe v. RiggsSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
- Bradley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1944
- Mitchell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1948
- Roberts v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1946
- McKewen v. McKewenCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1948
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3Cited by23 opinions
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- Imajean Hawkins v. Bertha Lue HawkinsCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1959
- Farmakis v. FarmakisCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1949
- Howard J. Benard v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1966
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