Liles v. Russell

Grice, Presiding Justice.

The issue here is whether the named beneficiary of life insurance policies is entitled to the proceeds as a matter of law.

This appeal and cross appeal arose when Zebulon M. Liles and Cottie Jackson Liles filed suit in the Superior Court of Fulton County against Aetna Life Insurance Company and General Foods Corporation. The complaint alleged essentially as follows: that they were the parents of Margaret Rose Liles who was killed on November 11, 1971, when an automobile in which she was a passenger overturned; that at the time of her death Margaret Rose Liles was…