Court Opinion

ID: 9420802
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:56:01.348737+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:16:05.770846
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Burton,
with whom The Chief Justice joins,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I agree with the opinion and the judgment of the Court insofar as it holds that no installments may be paid to the legal representatives of the estates of the respective deceased beneficiaries. However, I feel obliged to conclude that, within the meaning of the Act, only the natural father and the foster mother of the insured last *79bore to him, at the time of his death, the relationship of parents. That last relationship was then to the exclusion of everyone, even to the exclusion of his natural mother. Consequently, upon the death of those two persons who last bore the relationship of parent to the insured, there remained no person entitled under the terms of the Act to receive any of the proceeds as a contingent beneficiary. Accordingly, the proceeds should be withheld for the benefit of the National Service Life Insurance Fund.