Legal Opinion
Nixon v. Life Insurance Company of Virginia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided July 20, 1956No. 1794PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVER, Chief Judge.
One Barton M. Ewers, at the time of his death, was the holder of two industrial life insurance policies with the appellee insurance company; neither policy designated a beneficiary, but each contained a so-called “facility of payment” clause reading as follows:
“The Company may make any payment provided for in this Policy, to husband or wife, or any relative by blood, or lawful beneficiary, or connection by marriage of the Insured, or to any other person who may appear to be equitably entitled to the same by reason of having incurred expense on behalf of the Insured for his…
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