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269 F. 1021

Docket No. 3456.

Barnhart v. Barnhart

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided January 14, 1921.)

Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1921-01-14

Killits, Judge. Interpleader between Carrie F. Barnhart and Orville F. Barnhart and others to determine the right to the proceeds of an insurance policy. Decree awarding the proceeds to Carrie F. Barnhart, and Orville F. Barnhart and others appeal.

2 counsel of record

Affirmed · Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1921-01-14

¶1Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John M. Killits, Judge. Interpleader between Carrie F. Barnhart and Orville F. Barnhart and others to determine the right to the proceeds of an insurance policy. Decree awarding the proceeds to Carrie F. Barnhart, and Orville F. Barnhart and others appeal.

¶2Affirmed.

¶3Fred L. Carhart, of Marion, Ohio (Carhart & Warner, of Marion, Ohio, on the brief), for appellants.

¶4Thomas L. Gifford, of Toledo, Ohio, for appellee.

¶5PER CURIAM.

¶6An insurance benefit certificate which had been payable to appellee as beneficiary, was transferred by the assured, so as do make the appellants beneficiaries. Upon the assured’s death, the money was paid into court, and the old and the new beneficiaries were caused to interplead. The court below set aside the transfer, upon the ground that the insured was mentally incompetent and was unduly influenced. Appellants now' insist that the burden of proof rested strongly on appellee and was not met; but, quite regardless of the burden of proof, the record creates no such belief of error by the trial court, who saw and heard many of the witnesses, as will justify a reversal. The decree is affirmed.

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