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JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY v. SMITH

Civ. A. No. 5474.

161 F.Supp. 679 (1956)

JEFFERSON STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. Thelma B. SMITH and R. Hoke Robinson, Administrators c.t.a. of the Estate of Thaddeus Joseph Blakewood, deceased, and Shaw Rushton, Administrator of the Estate of Lucy Rushton Blakewood, deceased, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

August 1, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roberts, Jennings, Thomas & Lumpkin, Columbia, S. C., for plaintiff.

Robinson, McFadden & Dreher, Columbia, S. C., William L. Rhodes, Jr., Hampton, S. C., for defendants Thelma B. Smith and R. Hoke Robinson, Adms. c. t. a. Estate of Thaddeus Joseph Blakewood, deceased.

Jeff D. Griffith, Saluda, S. C., Randolph Murdaugh, and J. Robert Peters, Jr., Hampton, S. C., for defendant Shaw Rushton, Adm. of Estate of Lucy Rushton Blakewood, deceased.

TIMMERMAN, Chief Judge.

In this action, plaintiff seeks to interplead rival claimants to the proceeds of two policies of insurance on the life of Thaddeus Joseph Blakewood. It is alleged that the primary beneficiary of the two policies and the insured died in a common disaster and that conflicting claims to the proceeds of the two policies have been filed with plaintiff by the administrator of the estate of the deceased primary beneficiary and the administrators c...

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