Morgan v. United States

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MOYNAHAN, Chief Judge.

This case arises out of conflicting claims to a National Service Life Insurance Policy in the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) issued upon the life of Henry B. Morgan, Jr.

The policy of insurance was taken out in 1943 and was in force on the date of the death of the insured, on March 4, 1964. In the initial insurance application Martha Gunn Morgan was named as *214the beneficiary and the defendant’s aunt, Mary Boone Tong, was named as contingent beneficiary. On October 12, 1951, Martha Gunn Morgan was again named as principal beneficiary and the…