Pugh v. Gaines

Opinion by

Reno, J.,

Appellant contends that she has been improperly declared trustee of a portion of the proceeds of a policy of insurance on the life of Thomas James Gaines, now in the custody of the prothonotary of the court below. The appeal is from a final decree in equity and the facts appear from the chancellor’s findings which, having been affirmed en banc, have the same effect on conflicting testimony as the verdict of a jury.

Thomas James Gaines died on May 2, 1942, leaving to survive him. a wife, Mary Gaines,- to whom he had been legally married but from whom he had been separated a…