Scheihing v. Baltimore & OHIO R. R.

George Elmer Scheihing, about eighteen years before his death at State Sanitarium, Maryland, on February 28, 1939, was an employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. On October 16, 1930, he applied for membership in the Relief Department of the Railroad, an insurance branch of the railroad, for a policy of $2,000, for death for natural causes only, and named his wife, Pamela W. Scheihing, the appellant, as beneficiary, “or to whom I may hereafter from time to time designate in writing by way of substitution, with the written consent of the superintendent.” It does not appear in the…