Bryan v. Rowland

This case involves the distribution of approximately $10,000 arising from a war-risk insurance policy upon the life of Medford Broxton, a negro soldier who died in the service in France in 1918, and complaints regarding the allowance by the court of something over $2000 of the funds as attorney’s fees and other expenses alleged to have been necessary in bringing the fund into court. The policy of insurance was not introduced in the trial, and is not in the record. It seems to be conceded that the beneficiary of the policy was Sarah C. Bouse, to whom several installments upon the policy were…