Bellinger v. Bellinger

Plaintiff’s father and mother were divorced in 1935, when he was seven years of age. His father died in 1941, leaving a will, executed in 1939, which placed the residuary estate in trust for plaintiff’s benefit and named the father’s brother as trustee, with an alternative appointment of a friend if the brother failed to qualify. Nothing has become, or apparently ever will become, available for plaintiff under that trust. Shortly after the divorce was granted, the father caused seven policies of insurance upon his life to be indorsed with pro*950visions making plaintiff the beneficiary thereof…