Carter v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States

KLIEBERT, Judge.

This case was tried as a concursus proceeding after the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States deposited into the registry of the court $38,143.67 in policy proceeds due under Certificate No. 2630 as a result of the death of the insured, Ruben Carter.1 The rival claimants to the proceeds are the decedent’s concubine of twenty-four years, Freída Williams (appellant), and the decedent's sons, Billie Carter, Joseph C. Thomas, Henry Carter, David C. Thomas, Junius Carter and Samuel C. Thomas, a/k/a Samuel Carter (appellees). Equitable invoked concursus proceedings…