Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York v. Owens

BICKLEY, Justice.

The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York filed its bill of interpleader, setting up that Hube# E. Owens at the time of his death had an insurance policy with it. The company acknowledged that the sum called for in the policy was due to the beneficiary, and averred its willingness to pay the proceeds of the policy to the party entitled thereto. The bill alleged that Fay E. Owens (appellee), wife of the insured, was designated as beneficiary on the face of the policy, and that Marthalouise Horton Owens (appellant), former wife of the insured, was holding a request for…