Manning v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

NORTHROP, Chief Judge.

This is an action in which various persons, all of whom profess to enjoy a degree of relationship to the deceased, a serviceman killed in action on March 5, 1968, claim the proceeds (since paid into court) of a $10,000 term policy written by The Prudential as contract insurer under the Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance Act, 38 U.S.C. § 765 et seq. After tracing the kinship of the claimants through a labyrinth of meritrieious relationships reminiscent of those of the court of Charles II, we have ascertained with some degree of certainty the relationships of the claimants…