Alliance Life Insurance v. Ulysses Volunteer Fireman's Relief Ass'n

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Foth, C.:

Alliance Life Insurance Company, of McPherson, brought this declaratory judgment action to determine its liability under a $10,000 accidental death policy it had written on Darrell Dean Major, of Ulysses, who was killed in an airplane crash. The defendants were the Ulysses Volunteer Firemens Relief Assn., to whom Major had assigned his ownership rights under the policy, and Major’s wife and children, the beneficiaries, all of Ulysses.

After the crash, which occurred in Grant county on October 1, 1972, claim was made under the policy and agents…