Robinson v. Tabb

OPINION

FONES, Justice.

This suit involves the right of two minor illegitimate children to the proceeds of a policy insuring the life of Amos L. Pines, deceased, wherein no individual was designated as beneficiary.

Marvella Robinson (Pines), as mother and next friend of Roy Lee Robinson (Pines), age two years, and Kenneth Lebrón Robinson (Pines), age three months, (as of September 1976), filed an intervening petition in the estate of decedent asserting that Amos L. Pines, deceased, was their father and that they were entitled to the policy proceeds by virtue of T.C.A. § 56-1108.

The learned…