Haynes v. Warthan

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This litigation involves the right to the proceeds of three life insurance contracts. Pursuant to an agreement of all litigants, the insurance carriers had deposited the proceeds with a trustee to be distributed by the latter upon final adjudication of the issues. A suit on two of the policies was consolidated with another which involved the third policy. This is an appeal from the decree entered in the consolidated action.

Rosa D. Patterson, the wife of H. Patterson, predeceased him some 15 to 30 minutes on August 28, 1950, as a result of injuries received in a common…