Hester v. Hester

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

This is another controversy over whether a change of beneficiary in a war risk insurance policy had been validly effected. Unlike those of which the books have been so lately full,1 this controversy has to do not with “the acts and intentions of those in military service in time of war,” 2 but with those of a civilian. A veteran of World War One, discharged from military service in 1919, insured was an experienced business man holding positions of trust and confidence in his community.

In the three policies involved in these suits, insured had designated his mother as…