Morehead v. Morehead

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is an interpleader action which determined the right to a decedent’s group life insurance benefits. James Ray More-head appeals from the judgment which awarded the insurance benefits to Nellie Morehead.

Appellant James Ray Morehead is the son of appellee Nellie Morehead and the decedent J.J. Morehead. In 1974, J.J. Morehead filed a beneficiary designation card with his employer, Lone Star Steel Company, which named James Ray More-head as his sole beneficiary under the group policy Lone Star had at that time which was Travelers Insurance Company policy, # 377002.…