Mabbitt v. Wilkerson

Involved in this appeal is the question whether the provisions of a property settlement in a divorce decree are effective to eliminate the wife as the designated beneficiary in an insurance policy on the life of the husband.

Sometime prior to 1935, Harold W. Mabbitt and appellee were married and thereafter Mr. Mabbitt took out insurance policy No. 9,504,803 with the Equitable Life-Assurance Society of the United States. On July 8, 1943, they were divorced and the decree embodied the property settlement referred to above. The language therein, it is contended, barred appellee from anything, as…