Butler v. United States

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff is the sole heir at law of both the beneficiary and the insured under the war risk policy he sues on. He plants himself upon the Texas statutes, article 3314, Revised Statutes of 1925, that “whenever a person dies intestate, all of his estate shall vest immediately in his heirs at law, but with the exceptions aforesaid shall still be liable and subject in their hands to the payment of the debts of the intestate,” and the decisions in Texas that, unlike in most states, personal property passes to the heirs by the statutes and not through process of…