Gorgas' Estate

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

John B. Gorgas died March 14, 1927. The proceeds of a life insurance policy on his life were, on April 1,1927, paid to his mother, Mary A. Gorgas, the named beneficiary. Nellie Gorgas, daughter of John, seeks to establish a parol trust of the insurance proceeds against the estate of Mary, who died August 20, 1933. The fund was awarded, with interest, to Nellie. The administrator has appealed.

When the policy was issued in 1924, John’s first wife, Nellie’s mother, had died and he was about to remarry. Although she did not purport to have been a witness to the…