Kendig v. Kendig

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, the widow of Wiley SoRelle Kendig, sued the United States and the mother of .Kendig to recover on a $10,000 National Service Life Insurance policy, her claim to be the beneficiary _ thereof having been rejected by the Veterans Administration and that of the mother recognized. At the close of plaintiff’s case the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendants. The question on the appeal is whether there was enough evidence of a change of beneficiary to require submission of the cause to the jury.

Kendig entered the Navy as an aviation cadet and…