Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of the United States v. Brown

McCLINTIC, District Judge.

This is a case involving the determination of whether a change in the beneficiary under three policies of insurance issued upon the life of Merritt M. Hill of Elver-ton, West Virginia, had been effected at the time of his death. The plaintiff insurance company paid the face value of the three policies into court and asked "that the adverse claimants be decreed to interplead and settle between themselves their respective rights or claims to the sum deposited into court. The matter was heard upon an agreed statement of facts.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the…