Healy v. Bellingham Branch Seattle-First National Bank

This is an appeal by the administrator of the estate of an intestate decedent, and by the next of kin of the same decedent, from that part of a decree of distribution wherein the commuted value of the unpaid balance of a war risk insurance policy issued to decedent was ordered to be distributed to the administrator with the will annexed of the estate of decedent’s father.

The facts of the case are not in dispute. Louis Satollie Verchot, a soldier in the United States army during the world war, was issued a yearly renewable term war risk insurance policy in the amount of ten thousand dollars.…