United States of America, Plaintiff-Respondent v. Eve B. Pahmer, Eva Pahmer

How courts have described this case

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• “the requirement of positive action [is] satisfied if the insured ‘has done everything reasonably within his power to accomplish his purpose, leaving only ministerial acts to be performed by the insurer.’ ”
• “[I]n the field of National Life Insurance the cases are legion which hold that in judging of the efficacy of an attempted change of beneficiary the courts brush aside all legal technicalities in order to effectuate the manifest intention of the insured.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).