Bratcher v. United States

JOHNSEN, Circuit Judge.

Tire question is whether the District Court erred in holding that the insured, in a policy issued under the National Service Life Insurance Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1008, as amended, 38 U.S.C.A. § 801 et seq., had intended and had effected such a change of beneficiary, as entitled the Veterans Administración to give it recognition in making payment of the proceeds. We are of the opinion that the court’s holding in tlie situation was proper.

Harlan G. Ballard, a member of the armed services, 19 years old, executed an application for national service life insur- anee, in the…