American Nat. Life Ins. Co. v. Shaddinger

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a contest over the proceeds of two life insurance policies amounting to $5,500. The beneficiary named in the policies, who is the widow of the insured, shot and killed him, and asserts that she did it in lawful self-defense. The heirs at law of the insured are his mother, three brothers and a sister. The insurance company, being warned by the heirs that they claimed the in surance, brought this interpleader proceeding against the widow and heirs of the insured, under the provisions of Act 123 of 1922, and deposited the $5,500 in the registry of the court. The…