Nye v. Mutual Ben. Life Ins.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The dispute which provoked this appeal is between two parties who are contesting for the proceeds of a $1.0,000 life insurance policy which matured Jan. 6, 1943, upon the death of the insured, Olin T. Nye. The trial court submitted the case to a jury. A verdict favorable to the defendants, who were the insured’s adopted daughter and her children, and against the plaintiffs, who were the administratrix of the estate of a brother of the insured and the widow of said brother, was returned. A judgment in favor of defendants was duly entered. This appeal followed.

The insured…