Legal Opinion
Willie Lee Tinsley v. General Motors Corporation Metropolitan Life, Beulah Calloway, Third-Party
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 26, 2000No. 99-2045PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MOORE, Circuit Judge.
This is an interpleader action in which Willie Lee Tinsley appeals the decision of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan granting summary judgment to third-party defendant-appel-lee Beulah Calloway and awarding the benefits of Edward B. Williams’s ERISA-covered life insurance plan to Calloway. For the reasons set out below, we REVERSE and REMAND for a trial on the merits.
I. BACKGROUND
Edward B. Williams, who died on December 18, 1996, had initially designated his niece, Willie Lee Tinsley, as the beneficiary of the life insurance plan that he…
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