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In Flood v. United States, 3 Cir., 172 F.2d 221, affirming D.C., 78 F. Supp. 420, and in Horn v. United States, 3 Cir., 1950, 179 F.2d 238, the Court of Appeals for this Circuit disposed of two appeals in this category by per curiam opinions.
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No. 9731.
Argued December 7, 1948.
Decided January 10, 1949.
Appeal from the United States District Court for District of New Jersey; Thomas F. Meaney, Judge.
Arthur E. Klaiber, of Newark, N.J., for appellant.
Benjamin Edelstein, of Asbury Park, N.J., for appellee.
Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and MARIS and O'CONNELL, Circuit Judges.
No useful purpose would be served by writing an extended opinion in the case at bar. It is clear that sufficient competent evidence was introduced from which the jury could find, as they did find, that the deceased soldier had taken positive and affirmative steps to change the beneficiary of his insurance policy from his mother to his wife. In fact in the instant case it is unnecessary to go even as far as did the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Mitchell v. United States, 165 F.2d 758, 2 A.L.R.2d 484, affirming Rutledge v. United States, D.C., 72 F. Supp. 352, for in the case at bar the soldier wrote to his wife that "* * * the insurance is in your name only."
Accordingly the judgment of the court below, 78 F. Supp. 420, will be affirmed.