Bertha Tatum v. Oscar Tatum

BARNES, Circuit Judge.

Appellant appeals from a judgment entered by the District Court, sitting without a jury, disallowing her claim to the proceeds of a policy of life insurance issued to and upon the life of Erwin or Ervin Tatum 1 under the provisions of the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act, 2 and awarding the proceeds thereof to appellees, the decedent’s three surviving children by his first marriage.

This action was originally brought against the United States of America and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, the insurer. Metropolitan counterclaimed interpleading 3…