Stafford v. Stafford

Mr. (Justice Chambliss

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree awarding a fund in the hands of W. H. York, as administrator of the estate of a war veteran, William Henry Steen, who died in 1918, to T. L. Hatchett, administrator of the estate of James B. Steen, the father of William Henry Steen. The fund involved is a part of the proceeds of a war risk insurance policy, in which policy the father of the veteran, who died in 1920, some sixteen months after the veteran, was the named beneficiary.

The veteran had never married and was a resident of Kentucky at the time he…