Gaston v. Clabaugh

The opinion of the court was delivered by

West, J.:

Robert J. Gaston became a member of the Modern Woodmen of America in 1889, at which time he took out a policy of insurance in that order for $3,000 in favor of his wife and four children. He was killed in a railroad accident on March 28, 1918. Sometime in December, 1917, he became estranged from the members of his family, except his married daughter, Ethel Clabaugh, and took up his residence with her and her husband and entered into some kind of an agreement with them by which they were to keep him as long as he lived, and he agreed to change…