Kotch v. Kotch

The action under review may be taken as one of interpleader by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, insurer in a group life insurance policy covering employees of the Texas and New Orleans Railroad Company and in particular Bruno Adam Kotch, a retired brakeman of advanced age, who died from cancer of the throat on December 27th, 1948, holding a certificate for $1200 under the policy. This sum, which the insurer, describing itself as disinterested, duly paid into court, is the subject of conflicting claims of the other two parties to the suit, Mrs. Frances Kotch, widow of the insured and…