Brooks v. Russ

William H. Cole, a soldier in the World War, died in France on October 28, 1918, unmarried and intestate, leaving surviving him his father, William Cole, his mother, Rhoda Cole, a sister, Minnie Ann Brooks, and a half-brother, Frazier Sayres, an illegitimate son of Rhoda Cole who was never acknowledged by William Cole as his child. William H. Cole, the soldier, designated his mother the beneficiary in his War Risk insurance policy of $10,000. She received the monthly installments due thereon until her death in 1923; thereafter, and until his death in 1929, the father, William Cole, received…