Sherman v. Roe

The controversy in this cause is over the right to the proceeds of a certificate of life insurance under a group policy. The insured, James Roe, and the beneficiary, who was his wife, Edna I. Roe, were killed in a common disaster, and it is unknown to the parties hereto whether Roe and his wife died at the same moment or whether one survived the other. They were killed on June 4,1951, at which time the Simultaneous Death Act, Chapter 196, Acts Regular Session, 52nd Legislature, 1951, Article 2583a, Vernon’s Annotated Civil Statues, had not become effective.

This case was instituted by bill of…