Metropolitan Life Ins. v. Baker

ATWELL, Chief Judge.

The Magnolia Petroleum Company of Dallas, Texas, caused to be issued to its employee George G. Kemp, a policy of insurance in the interpleading plaintiff and paid the premiums on such policy out of the salary of employee Kemp. The policy was payable to his mother who died, and he then made his wife, Martha Maud Kemp, in 1943, the beneficiary, and in 1946 he changed the beneficiary to two of his sisters, to-wit: Natalie Kemp Baker and Mary Lou Smith.

This contest is between the two last named, and his wife, Martha Maud Kemp.

George G. Kemp, the employee, died after making the…