Manufacturers Life Ins. Co. v. Moore

TOLIN, District Judge.

In this interpleader action the Manufacturers Life Insurance Company has deposited into Court the accrued death benefits of a certain insurance policy and seeks an adjudication as to whom it shall make further payments. Patricia G. Moore, the primary beneficiary and widow of decedent, seeks payment of accumulated funds and future installments to her. She is opposed by her daughter by a previous marriage, Antonia Jane Thomas, and by the child of her marriage with decedent, Telford I. Moore, Jr. These children are secondary beneficiaries under the policy and by its terms…