Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Same

RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.

This is a three-cornered contest on a policy of life insurance, involving the insurer, the mother and the wife of the insured, Alexander T. Saxe. His wife Jane Saxe, now Mrs. Ross, was the original beneficiary and recovered judgment on the policy after a jury trial. She remarried about a year and a half after Saxe’s death. His mother, Gertrude T. Saxe, intervened, claiming the proceeds, or half of them, by virtue of alleged changes, shortly before her son’s death, making her beneficiary. The insurance company hereafter called Prudential or the insurer, contests…