Droney v. United States

LETTS, Justice.

The plaintiff Jacqueline J. Droney brings this suit as the designated beneficiary of a contract of National Service Life Insurance, issued to Robert F. Droney on August 1, 1942, while in the military service of the United States.

It appears without dispute that the insured originally named his wife, the intervener, Grace P. Droney, as beneficiary of said insurance, but on August 1, 1943, attempted to change the beneficiary of said *155insurance, naming plaintiff whose relationship was given as that of “sister”. The insured died on August 4,1943. The disagreement as contemplated by…