Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Simmons' Adm'x

This is a motion for an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court, B. H. Farnsley, Judge, allowing appellee to recover $2,000 upon life insurance policies.

The question presented is, who is entitled to the proceeds of these policies, the insured’s heir or the named beneficiary, who at the time of insured’s death was his divorced wife.

We have previously decided this question in Warren v. Spurlock’s Adm’r, 292 Ky. 668, 167 S.W.2d 858, where we held the heir is the proper party to receive the proceeds of the policy in circumstances similar to *14those presented by this record. As we…