Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Sutton

DOERNER, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment and decree rendered in an interpleader action in which the individual Administrators of a husband and wife, both of whom died as the result of a common disaster, each claimed the proceeds of a life insurance policy in which the husband was the insured and the wife was named the beneficiary. The Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis held that the wife had survived her husband and directed the payment of the fund to the Administrator of her estate. In due course the Administrator of the husband’s estate appealed.

On or about April 21, 1958,…