Mitchell v. Mitchell

Bell, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the direction of a verdict in favor of the appellee in a case involving a contest over the proceeds of a life insurance policy. The insured had a life insurance policy issued by the Coastal States Life Insurance Company. The policy named the appellee as beneficiary. It appears without dispute that on June 4, 1970, the insured while hospitalized with terminal cancer executed the change of beneficiary form on the company’s standard form by which he changed the beneficiary from the appellee to his two sons, the appellants. The change of beneficiary form…