White v. Eastman

COLLINGS, Justice.

Ardith White and Betty Goodmiller brought this suit in the District Court against Charlene Wilkes Eastman to construe the will of William G. Eastman, deceased. As the only children of William G. Eastman by a former marriage, Plaintiffs urged that the deceased died intestate as to two policies of life insurance, both of which were alleged to be his separate property, and that both policies designated the deceased’s estate as beneficiary. Plaintiffs sought to recover from the Defendant two-thirds of the policy proceeds as equal heirs of William G. Eastman, as if he owned the…