Oates v. Hodge

AKIN, Justice.

Evelyn Oates appeals from a judgment, after trial to the court, which denied her recovery of the benefits under a group policy of insurance on the life of Alvin Hodge and awarded them instead to Louisa Shelley Hodge and Dorothy Hodge, the decedent’s ceremonial wife and his daughter by a prior marriage. Oates brings two points of error, asserting that: (1) the trial court failed to apply the proper law to the facts; and (2) the trial court’s finding that Evelyn Oates was not the same person as Evelyn Hodge (the policy’s named beneficiary) was contrary to the undisputed evidence…