Patillo v. Norris

Opinion

ASHBY, J.

This case- involves determining the rights of the parties when a man with two wives and a child dies intestate, having designated a neighbor lady as the beneficiary of his employment-related life insurance policy and union pension fund death benefit.

The record on appeal in this case is sketchy and in some respects inadequate. None of the pleadings is contained in the clerk’s transcript. An engrossed settled statement is substituted for a reporter’s transcript of the proceedings. A summary of the evidence was contained in the closing trial brief of one of the parties and was…