Mason's Administrator v. Mason's Guardian

Opinion of the Court by

Drury, Commissioner

Reversing.

These two appeals are prosecuted on the same record, they are from the same judgment, relate to the same subject-matter, and we shall dispose of them in one opinion.

These appeals involve the distribution of $5,887, the balance of the proceeds of a policy of war risk insurance written by the United States government upon the life of Sherman Mason, a soldier in its service in the World War.

The soldier entered the service on the-day of-, 1917. He died in Ihe service on the 9th of October, 1918, unmarried, intestate, and without issue. His age…