De Zoteel v. Mutual Life Insurance

January 3, 1928, Roy G. De Zotell effected a policy of insurance upon his life with defendant company in the amount of $2,000, paying the first annual premium thereon of $27.56, naming his wife, Elnora De Zotell, plaintiff herein, as beneficiary, and reserving to himself the right to change beneficiaries from time to time as he might desire. On August 9, 1928, Elnora De Zotell feloniously shot and killed her husband, the insured, and was subsequently convicted of first degree manslaughter. Roy De Zotell died intestate, leaving him surviving, in addition to= his widow, his mother, two…