Matthews v. Stroud

FOSTER, Justice.

The bill in this case is filed by the surviving children of Charlie C. Stroud, deceased, who left no widow.

The demurrer is to paragraph 2 of the bill, and it was overruled, and respondent appeals and assigns the decree as error.

In paragraph 2 an attack is . made upon the right of decedent to name appellant as the beneficiary in a fraternal life insurance policy, and it is controlled in this respect by section 8445, Code, as amended by the Gen. Acts of 1931, page 72, § 4, so that the beneficiary in such a policy is not confined to those named in its provisions as it appears in…