Legal Opinion
Pendergrass v. New York Life Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 3, 1950No. 14048PublishedCited by 114 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a controversy between the appellants and the appellee Ann Pendergrass over the proceeds of a $6,000 policy of insurance upon the life of Willard Pender-grass. The insured was the father of the appellants by a divorced wife, and the husband of Ann Pendergrass, by whom he was shot and killed November 6, 1948.' She was the designated beneficiary in the policy at the time of his death.
The appellants brought an action in the District Court against the New York Life Insurance Company, the insurer, upon the claim that the beneficiary had feloniously and unlawfully…
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