Cody v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This was an interpleader to determine the ownership of money paid into court by the insurance company on a certificate 1 of insurance issued pursuant to a policy of group insurance covering employees of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. An employee, William H. Cody, received a certificate in which he named his wife beneficiary. The certificate was dated August 30, 1928. He died January 2, 1935. In March, 1932, he and his wife separated and thereafter lived apart; he retained a key to the house in which she continued to live and was visited by her in a hospital…