HEDGER v. REYNOLDS

No. 35, Docket 23007.

216 F.2d 202 (1954)

Arminda H. HEDGER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ethel H. REYNOLDS, Defendant-Appellant, and The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 5, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray & Wythe, New York City, Horace M. Gray, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff-appellee.

Henry J. Smith, New York City, for defendant-appellant.

Before CHASE, MEDINA and HARLAN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

Invoking the diversity jurisdiction of the court, the appellee brought this suit to set aside an instrument she had signed at the request of her deceased husband which had enabled him to have a policy of insurance on his life, in which she had previously been the sole beneficiary without right reserved to the insured to change the beneficiary, amended to give him that right. Before his death, he revoked the designation of his wife as beneficiary and had...

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