Henning v. United States

WYZANSKI, District Judge.

A jury having been waived, I shall dictate my findings and conclusions.

The question at issue in this case is who, if anyone, shall receive the proceeds of a policy of national life insurance for $10,000 issued on the life of Eugene C. Henning, a service man, who died on active service on July 4, 1945.

There are three principal claimants:— first, the claim of the representative of the father of the service man; second, the claim of the mother of the service man; and third, the claim of the representative of the stepmother of the service man. In one sense this first…