Conklin

George Heizman, an enlisted man in the United States Army, took out a policy of war risk life insurance on May 6, 1918. In July of that year, while he was stationed at Camp Fremont, Cal., he married Sadie Mae Moore, now Deavenport, and she became his beneficiary. They lived together as husband and wife for about two months when Heizman left with his regiment for Siberia. The wife returned to her home in Kansas and never again saw her husband. Heizman returned from Siberia in October, 1919, suffering from a disease traceable to the extra hazard of the military service. He was treated at the gov *142 emment hospital at Palo Alto, and while there learned that his wife had divorced him in Kansas.

Phillip C. Blake, a. soldier, occupied a bed in the hospital next to Heizman. ■ Heizman was so sick he could not attend to himself, and Blake, no.t being bedridden, was able to and did perform many little services for his buddy. Naturally they became very friendly ahd exchanged confidences. Heizman discussed his marital troubles with Blake, told him his wife had divorced him, and-that he desired to change the beneficiary in his life' insurance policy to his sister. Blake called the matter to…