Walker v. Queener

The case involves the question of the liability of the proceeds of a war risk insurance policy for the debts of the deceased beneficiary of the policy, the beneficiary being also the sole distributee of the insured. The chancellor held the fund exempt from the claims of creditors except as to the claim for funeral expenses, which seems to have been allowed by consent of the parties. Other creditors have appealed.

One Walker was a soldier in the United States Army and died in the service in December, 1918. He had an insurance policy known as a war risk insurance policy in which his father, Ed…