Ogden v. Hooks

This.is an appeal by the petitioner Mrs. Margaret Webb Ogden from a decree of the Probate Court of Shelby County denying her the right to a year’s support out of the proceeds of certain policies of insurance on the life of her husband Charles E. Ogden, deceased.

Mr. Ogden had been employed for many years prior to his death by the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company at Memphis. As such employee he had two certificates of group insurance of $2,520 and $5,000, respectively, under a master policy issued to that company by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S., and one ordinary life policy…