Peeler v. Doster

OPINION

COOPER, Justice.

This action involves a contest over the proceeds of two insurance policies on the life of Robert Neal Peeler, who died on March 15,1979, from injuries received in an automobile accident. The plaintiff-appellee Joy Rainey Peeler, who is the widow of the insured and the administratrix of his estate, instituted the action to obtain a judgment declaring the proceeds to be the property of the Peeler estate. The other claimant is David Doster, who insists that he is the beneficiary named in the policies and, as such, is entitled to the proceeds. Both the chancellor and the…