Ettlinger

This is an appeal from a decree in an action of interpleader ordering that the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company pay the proceeds of two life insurance policies on the life of Isaac Ettlinger, deceased, to Marian Ettlinger Slevin and Dorothy Ettlinger Goldstone, hereinafter called appellees, in accordance with the provisions of a trust agreement executed by Isaac Ettlinger, hereinafter called the insured.

The two policies, one for $15,000 and the other for $50,000, were issued in 1923 and 1929 respectively. The 1923 policy named the appellees, daughters of the insured, as beneficiaries. The 1929 policy named the estate of the insured as beneficiary, but in 1931 the appellees were made beneficiaries. In 1934 insured changed the beneficiaries under both policies to the Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Company of San Francisco as trustees, with the ap-pellees as beneficiaries of the trust. In 1935 the insured and Clare D. Ettlinger, the appellant, were married. In 1939 a written request for change of beneficiary was executed by the insured and signed by appellant. This was a company form, and it requested that the beneficiary under the two policies mentioned above be…